Not even five moths in front of the government and the Portuguese prime minister achieved the unthinkable. He was today “dismissed” by the Portuguese president. He will stay in front of the government until February when new elections will be held. What drove to this was a four month government that when you thought that they couldn't do worse, they would do some nonsense that was proper of a Hollywood film. It starts with the nomination of this government. Instead of being elected they wore nominated. It was an ambiguous decision, because the Portuguese Constitution wasn't clear about what to do when the prime minister got out, but wasn't fired. Jose Barroso was the Portuguese primer minister he went away for the presidency of the European Union. The Portuguese President preferred the nomination of the president of the party that was most voted in the last election.

This government was accused of everything… unfortunately most of it was true. They wore accused of pressing the media; a commission was appointed and conclude that the pressures existed. They wore accused of lack of coordination… it wasn't needed any commission to verify that… on the same day the Portuguese primer said that taxes wore going down and the finance minister said that it was impossible to get the taxes down.

They wore accused of lack of preparation on some deals; one week later the EU failed a deal that would get together Gas and Electricity. The “drop of water” that made the glass full was the resignation of a minister that was re-nominated 4 days ago, and his reason was lack of confidence… this minister was seen as one of the closest to the prime minister.

The big issue (at least for me) is that the main figure in the opposition, the one that could also be prime minister is almost like a twin of the one dismissed today. So they will continue to have my blank vote, and my hopes that in near future competent persons will be part of a competent government. Last elections (for the European parliament) 9% of the Portuguese that voted, voted in blank… I'm curious to see how many will vote in the beginning of the next year.