It almost seems impossible. I spent my time writing about the American elections, writing about elections that will only influence me on an indirect level and when the Portuguese took place I didn’t bother to write anything.
Well I’m writing now. The government is only fully functional for a few days, and the first measures are begging to appear.
Well they should have no major problems in the next four year. The party that won, Partido Socialista (PS), a party that belongs to The Socialist International, won with absolute majority, a thing that they never did before, the EU approved a new approach to the stability pact, one that is less strict, the president of the EU commission is Portuguese. But there is more, the European economy is starting to show signs of improvement, and the same thing is happening with the Portuguese one.
The government is made by new people, some of them didn’t have anything to do with politics before entering the government. And the ones that wore pointed has probable ministers before the composition of the government was announce didn’t enter the government, as the new prime-minister was able to understand that the Portuguese people didn’t want the same old people running their country.
But they’ll have a very hard job, Portugal is far behind the old countries of the EU and needs to catch up with countries like Greece, Spain or Ireland. There is virtually no time to waste, they need to take some harsh measures in a very short period of time.
I’m hoping that they get them right, we’ll be here to see.