Portugal’s ruling center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won a snap parliamentary election on Sunday but again fell short of the majority needed to end a long period of instability as the far-right Chega gained a record share of the vote.

Portugal’s president was due to convene the country’s political parties for consultations on Monday, after a general election delivered another minority government as well as an unprecedented showing by populist party Chega (Enough) that added momentum to Europe’s shift to the far-right.

Portugal has witnessed a steep rise in immigration. In 2018, less than 500,000 immigrants in Portugal had legal residency, according to government statistics. By early this year, there were more than 1.5 million, many of them Brazilians and Asians working in tourism and farming. Thousands more lack the proper documents to be in Portugal.

A historic shift to the right has overshadowed the victory of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's conservatives in Portugal's snap parliamentary election on Sunday. With nearly all votes counted, the far-right party Chega was in a neck-and-neck race for second place with the Socialist Party (PS),

Voters in Portugal are returning to the polls for a third general election in three years, as the country’s increasingly fragmented political landscape defies efforts to unite behind policies on pressing national issues such as immigration,

In the Portuguese legislative elections, the third one in less than four years, far-right Chega party won over 22.6% vote and nearly took over the Sociality Party, one of the oldest political parties in the country, which formed numerous governments since the country’s transition to democracy in 1974.

Portugal's ruling centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) took an early lead in Sunday's parliamentary election, garnering over 38% of the vote with more than 10% of the ballots counted, official electoral data showed.

A researcher at the University of Coimbra lamented on Tuesday that Portugal, which in 2018 ranked fifth in the LGBTQI+ rights ranking, has fallen

Portugal’s third general election in three years Sunday dashed hopes that the ballot could end the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people.

Following are the main parties running in Portugal's general election on Sunday, its third in just over three years. Opinion polls are pointing to another fragile minority government and a fragmented parliament.