It is a bad
day for those innocents on the Left who think that the European Union
can be transformed from within, turned into an instrument of the
peoples’ will and a motor for social progress, public ownership,
popular sovereignty or even pluralist democracy.
For the
first time since the monetary union was created parties that oppose
the EU regime of privatisation, labour market deregulation and the
fiscal straitjacket have been prevented from taking office even
though they enjoy a parliamentary majority.
On the
grounds of “national interest” Anibal Cavaco Silva, president of
Portugal’s constitutional president, has refused to allow the
appointment a Left-wing coalition government even though it secured
an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament on an anti
austerity mandate imposed by the EU-IMF Troika.
The
Socialists, Communists and left Bloc together won 50.7% of the votes
and control the Assembly. The biggest party grouping, led by Pedro
Passos Coelho gained only 38.5% losing 28 seats but was given the
first chance of forming a government.
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