Question: Does anyone realise there has been a virtual coup in Portugal?

And did anyone know there have been huge protests and riots?  Cos it ain't on the tv, although it is in other places:


PORTUGAL’S CENTRE-RIGHT coalition government has begun preparing its return to power, but anti-austerity politicians who have more seats in parliament have vowed to bring it down.

Incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho started composing his new Cabinet yesterday after the country’s president invited him to form a government.

His party won the most seats in the 4 October vote but their coalition has fewer seats than the left-wing coalition.

The Socialist Party, the Left Bloc — allied with Greece’s anti-austerity Syriza party — the Communists and Greens won 122 of the parliament’s 230 seats, compared with 107 for the right-wing coalition.

Despite this, the conservative head of state said he couldn’t give power to parties which oppose Portugal’s membership of the shared euro currency — a reference to the Communists and Left Bloc. He therefore invited the centre-right coalition to form a government.

Centre-left opposition parties were incensed by the head of state’s decision.



More at:  http://www.thejournal.ie/politics-portugal-election-2408207-Oct2015/



Protests block access to Lisbon by the main bridge:









http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11949701/AEP-Eurozone-crosses-Rubicon-as-Portugals-anti-euro-Left-banned-from-power.html

I only did because I read the UK papers every other day or so...

Not been on American television because everything is all about the craptastic festival of nonsense that is the next presidential election....WHICH DOESN'T EVEN HAPPEN FOR ANOTHER YEAR FFS!!!!

Ahem. Sorry.

Yes, there has been some mention of it. But you wouldn't know it was a coup. It is overwhelmed in the domestic political News, as Cass says.

Cass wrote:I only did because I read the UK papers every other day or so...

Not been on American television because everything is all about the craptastic festival of nonsense that is the next presidential election....WHICH DOESN'T EVEN HAPPEN FOR ANOTHER YEAR FFS!!!!

Ahem. Sorry.

LOL, how do you stand it!

sassy wrote:

Cass wrote:I only did because I read the UK papers every other day or so...

Not been on American television because everything is all about the craptastic festival of nonsense that is the next presidential election....WHICH DOESN'T EVEN HAPPEN FOR ANOTHER YEAR FFS!!!!

Ahem. Sorry.

LOL, how do you stand it!

I don't. I really don't watch tv news anymore. But sadly I will tonight when I get home re: Paris