LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Official results show Portugal’s Social Democrats have unseated the Socialist government in an emphatic election victory.
With 15 seats still to be decided in the 230-seat Parliament, the center-right Social Democratic Party had elected 102 lawmakers in Sunday’s ballot compared with 71 for the second-placed Socialists.
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