moderate right-wing leader Luis Montenegro named Prime Minister. Montenegro's party received 28.8% of the votes and 80 deputies out of a total of 230.
It will therefore remain far from the threshold of 116 elected representatives. The far-right Chega (Enough) party strengthened its status as the third political force in the country, going from 12 to 50 deputies, with a score of 18.1%. “It will always be a government condemned to negotiation, because such is the fate of minority governments,” political scientist Antonio Costa Pinto commented to AFP.