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...hope that a "coherent" left-of-center government would emerge. It was not to be. Last week, when a record 87.5% of the electorate went to the polls, the vote instead went narrowly to a new center-right coalition called the Democratic Alliance. Its leader, Francisco Sá Carneiro, 45, an ambitious, sometimes abrasive, conservative lawyer-politician, is expected to be named Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Going Right | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Alliance, composed of Sá Carneiro's Center Social Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the tiny Monarchist Party, picked up 42.2% of the vote. The final tally is expected to give the Alliance a governing majority of 128 or 129 of the parliament's 250 seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Going Right | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...substantial gains were posted by Alvaro Cunhal's pro-Moscow Communists, whose share grew from 14.6% to 19%, reflecting increasing influence not only in industrialized Lisbon but also in the conservative, Roman Catholic north. With the next election due in the fall of 1980, Sa Carneiro must prove quickly that his government can do better than its predecessors in coping with Portugal's problems of rising inflation and unemployment, both now at about 25%, and falling business investment and living standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Going Right | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...constituencies?conservative Catholics of the north, businessmen and private landholders?for following the Socialist line. The C.D.S. was forced, in effect, to make its move against Soares' government in order to fend off growing competition from other political parties, notably the increasingly conservative Social Democrats controlled by Francisco Sá Carneiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: A Bird Uncaged | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...C.D.S. refused to support the Socialist approach, the P.S.D. was swayed by Scares' offer to include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with the party on future legislation. P.S.D. National Assembly members actually defied Leader Sa Carneiro's request that they abstain and voted with Scares, providing him with a healthy margin of victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Scares' Shaky Political Seesaw | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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