Socialist defeats far-right candidate in Portugal’s presidential runoff, exit polls show
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/socialist-defeats-far-right-candidate-portugals-presidential-runoff-exit-polls-2026-02-08/
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Socialist defeats far-right candidate in Portugal’s presidential runoff, exit polls show
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/socialist-defeats-far-right-candidate-portugals-presidential-runoff-exit-polls-2026-02-08/
Posted by gowmes
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Not only defeats, it seems to be around a 70-30 split. Absolutely destroyed the wannabe dictator.
Democracy doing democracy things voters spoke, now the real test is what comes next.
Anyone got a link to results when they come in?
Thank god
Thank god, unironicaly xD
I’m very curious to know how to government Will handle these results next year
Hopefully this will be a massive bitchslap for chega
Russia was sleeping it seems.
How did the voting go, considering all that flooding?
Tósegurismo intensifies
So a radical wins against a radical. Portugal must be a shitshow
Good
Why is it always far right? And not just right or right leaning.
I wish they stopped using socialist to describe PS even though it’s obviously in PS’ name.
It doesn’t do anyone any favours and it is misleading. Especially when it’s a guy in the most centrist faction of PS.
PS is Portugal’s mainstream Social Democratic Party and that’s it.
Just say “social democrat defeats far-right candidate”.
Well done
Portuguese people are still decent in general. Really good to see these results! Really good to actually check that the number of votes for this idiotic party is slowly going down
How depressing fascists or socialists both are oppressive in their own way what happened to Liberalism?
Congrats on the sane results.
Two small contributions to the discussion from me:
– In almost all European lands, far-right / populist fascism is about 1/4 – 1/3 of the population. That’s about all they can get, because the rest of the population is educated and has common sense. If the rest of the political forces are divided, the far-right gets a chance to rule by forming a coalition. Else, they won’t manage.
– Far right populism only offers scapegoats and hate. They will never offer a solution to any problem. Because of that, they quickly dissapoint their voters and tend to collapse after some time in power. Therefore, for every wannabe dictator that comes to power in a country, another will fall in another. Babis rose to power in Czech, Widers lost in Netherlands. They didn’t make it in Romania or Portugal, but Le Pen may succeed in France, but then again, Orban will lose in Hungary. Eventually, every country will have its turn to try the nationalist – populist stupidity. The important thing is that Europe advances – even slowly
Literally the Portuguese version of Ion Iliescu vs Corneliu Vadim Tudor. Except this guy didn’t beat ppl up with miners.
Great job Portugal 👏
He’s not a socialist btw
Correct headline: tactical voting amongst most parties, from socialists to conservatives, was necessary to defeat far-right.
Conclusion: far right has more support than any other single party.
Luckily for our _amigos lusos_ most voters put their differences aside to avoid farright taking the top seat.
Why is the title not “far left defeats far right”?
It it not a right candidate. It is a populist candidate. The right electorate voted against a populist irresponsible candidate
This guy is a socialist as much as the DDR was democratic. Portugal is in a lot of shit, I fell in love with the country 20 years ago and, unfortunately, I no longer visit. I do follow the political life, tho, I even made plans living there on a later stage of my life.
Every sensible Portuguese knows my reasons. This guy is not the solution to them.
*not a socialist at all
“Socialist” in name only.
Wasn’t this basically what the polling had already been predicting? As far as I can tell it wasn’t like there was ever any real expectation that the outcome would turn out different than it did
The far right has still been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years though. They went from 1.3%, to 7.2%, to 18.1%, to 22.8% of the vote in the legislative elections that’s taken place since 2019
And now Ventura got 33% of the vote in the presidential election
Like, you don’t have to be a math expert to see a clear trendline here
Yall got no idea what a breath of relief this is. Maybe the world isn’t totally cooked just yet…
Portugal W take, hellyes!
We need to push all of Trumps & Putin’s bitches out of the continent.
Yikes
Now let us be clear: this wasn’t a sOcIALIsT win.
Firs, PS isn’t socialist. They’re lobby sellouts that F common people’s lifes over for the highest bidder.
This was a PEOPLE’S WIN.
As soon as you spin this as “socialist win” instead of “saying no to fascists” you’re doing us a HUGE disservice. PS lost a lot in the last elections BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID. They’re not beloved nor welcomed nor anything.
PS (the sOCIaLisTs that f*cked Seguro over so that Costa could win) didn’t win anything tonight!!!
Seguro got payback from being backstabbed by them over a decade ago (although it could’ve been basically anyone else in his place tbh).
And the people won by giving a massive middle finger to the dictator lover. This is OUR/THE POPULATION’s win!
**F*ck Ventura AND F*ck PS. Equally** . The later are the ones that exploit the most vulnerable and basically put another transatlantic slave trade in action to feed their lobbyist friends and themselves!! They’re not any better than Ventura and Chega.