Pedro Passos Coelho will remain in power as prime minister of Portugal.
In Parliamentary elections held on Sunday (4 October), 38.6% of Portuguese voters chose to keep in office the centre-right PSD/CDS coalition that was elected in 2011, shortly after Portugal's creditors - the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – imposed a set of tough austerity measures.
With the 104 seats that he secured, Coelho fell short of the 116 seats...
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