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The Socialist Party won a majority in 2005-2011 and a plurality again in 2015 (before gaining a majority in 2022): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Portugal#XVII_and_...

GP is probably referring to one of those (maybe the more recent).

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Yeah, but the Socialist Party is more like the US Democrats. Names are weird.

This was my point. The Socialist Party in Portugal is a moderate social democratic party (while the "Social Democrats" there are a centrist party). There are communist/far-left parties/formations in Portugal, but they are not the gov't, and policy there is ... not communist.

This person is just drive-by shit talking his ideological biases

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