SEVILLE, Spain — A lightly regarded Portuguese political party barely five years old finds itself in a position to play kingmaker in the wake of national elections that failed to propel either of the two establishment parties into power.
That is after voters went to the polls in Portugal last weekend to elect all 230 members of the national Parliament. Going into the election, polls predicted a narrow win for the conservative party, over the ruling Socialist party. And narrow, it was.
