Brussels, 30/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - It came as no surprise that the Socialist opposition dominated the local elections in Portugal on Sunday 29 September, delivering a rebuke in particular at the party of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho for its austerity policy. The party of ally Paulo Portas, the CDS, faired slightly better and won five town halls.
On Sunday evening Passos Coelho acknowledged the “national defeat” of his Social Democratic PSD party, which failed in its target of...