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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Beatriz Ramalho da Silva in Lisbon & Sam Jones in Madrid

Splits in left are set to boost far-right TV pundit in Portugal’s snap election

Portuguese prime minister and Socialist Party secretary general António Costa, centre, waves during an election campaign event in the outskirts of Lisbon.
Portuguese prime minister and Socialist party secretary general António Costa, centre, waves during an election campaign event in the outskirts of Lisbon. Photograph: Armando Franca/AP

Between greeting regulars at the busy Lisbon bakery where she has worked for two decades – and reaching instinctively for their orders as soon as they cross the threshold – Susana Santos offers her thoughts on an imminent, and altogether less welcome, encounter.

Like many of her compatriots, she does not relish the idea of Sunday’s snap general election, which arrives amid a stubbornly lingering pandemic and during a time of economic upheaval and political uncertainty.

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