LISBON: Portugal’s opposition Socialists inflicted a stinging defeat on the Social Democrats in local elections as voters displayed their frustrations at the government’s austerity measures.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho admitted his conservative Social Democrat party’s (SDP) “national defeat” in the municipal polls on Sunday (Monday in Manila), which saw them lose control of the major cities of Porto, Sintra and Vila Nova de Gaia to the Socialists, according to partial results.
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