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Portugal's opposition PSD wins early election: results

LISBON : Portugal 's centre-right Social Democrats (PSD) defeated the ruling Socialists in Sunday's early election and
Published June 6, 2011

portogalLISBON: Portugal's centre-right Social Democrats (PSD) defeated the ruling Socialists in Sunday's early election and will be able to form a majority government with the smaller conservative CDS-PP party, official results showed.

The PSD captured 38.6 percent of the vote against 28 percent for Prime Minister Jose Socrates' Socialists, the interior ministry said after only the results of votes cast abroad were left to count.

 

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011

 

 

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011

 

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