Not really, local elections tend to have different results than the legislative elections, in Portugal.
For example, while PCP (communist party) has very small representation in our national parliament (2/170) it’s still the third largest party in number of mayor’s, way ahead of the far right.
The same applies to CDS (conservatives), that left the parliament a couple years ago (and came back last year) and were still able to elect 6 mayor’s.
Alô alô! Tão bom encontrar alguém Português no Lemmy! Quando a lemm.ee foi encerrada e saltei para a piefed.social não sabia que havia uma instance portuguesa. Foste tu que criaste a instance em que estás?
Tens algumas sugestões de comunidades portuguesas?
Temos aqui muitas comunidades que precisavam de mais atividade, se fores ao lemmy.pt no navegador podes ver todas as comunidades
Puxando a brasa à minha sardinha, criei recentemente uma comunidade onde estou a tentar começar uma leitura acompanhada (embora esta semana esteja atrasado 😢). Se gostares do tópico ou não souberes do que se trata fica à vontade para deixar alguma pergunta!
Unfortunately no. Because in local elections people vote individuals they know locally and communally. This is also why parties with no expression in the legislatives anymore like CDU or PCP win sits in these local elections. People vote who they know, not along national party lines when voting locally. Independents never even make a dent in legislative elections and in these a few manage to actually win. And a few have in these again. Which is good.
But I keep saying, if the current coalition government fails, Chega might actually win the legislative elections.
The Presidential elections are at the beginning of next year, and even though Ventura (Chega’s leader) has almost virtual zero chance at getting the presidency, he’s just running the cycle of circus and noise one more round to pump up his maniac followers and attract the few idiots who haven’t joined their circus yet, so that he can set his sights on the prime minister position in the next legislatives. And that is where the worrying starts.
The fact that their proportional share was 23% in the legislative election and now has 12% is not indicative that support for them diminished?
Not really, local elections tend to have different results than the legislative elections, in Portugal.
For example, while PCP (communist party) has very small representation in our national parliament (2/170) it’s still the third largest party in number of mayor’s, way ahead of the far right.
The same applies to CDS (conservatives), that left the parliament a couple years ago (and came back last year) and were still able to elect 6 mayor’s.
Alô alô! Tão bom encontrar alguém Português no Lemmy! Quando a lemm.ee foi encerrada e saltei para a piefed.social não sabia que havia uma instance portuguesa. Foste tu que criaste a instance em que estás?
Tens algumas sugestões de comunidades portuguesas?
Oi! Também estive no lemm.ee 😅 Acho que o @tmpod@lemmy.pt foi o criador
Temos aqui muitas comunidades que precisavam de mais atividade, se fores ao lemmy.pt no navegador podes ver todas as comunidades
Puxando a brasa à minha sardinha, criei recentemente uma comunidade onde estou a tentar começar uma leitura acompanhada (embora esta semana esteja atrasado 😢). Se gostares do tópico ou não souberes do que se trata fica à vontade para deixar alguma pergunta!
Unfortunately no. Because in local elections people vote individuals they know locally and communally. This is also why parties with no expression in the legislatives anymore like CDU or PCP win sits in these local elections. People vote who they know, not along national party lines when voting locally. Independents never even make a dent in legislative elections and in these a few manage to actually win. And a few have in these again. Which is good.
But I keep saying, if the current coalition government fails, Chega might actually win the legislative elections.
The Presidential elections are at the beginning of next year, and even though Ventura (Chega’s leader) has almost virtual zero chance at getting the presidency, he’s just running the cycle of circus and noise one more round to pump up his maniac followers and attract the few idiots who haven’t joined their circus yet, so that he can set his sights on the prime minister position in the next legislatives. And that is where the worrying starts.