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1. A little story for #SocialistSunday. In 2015, Portugal had a general election. The party with the largest number of elected officials and, thus, under their electoral system, would form the government was the Socialist Party headed up by António Luís Santos da Costa.
2. The EU weren't happy about this at all. Costa was elected on an anti-EU ticket, Portugal's finances were in total disarray after years of austerity, and they were so terrified of a Socialist government that they tried to stop him becoming PM: telegraph.co.uk/finance/econom…
3. Eventually, though, the right-wing government only lasted a fortnight. express.co.uk/news/world/618…
