Scary: Tenfold in extreme populist Portugal

Robello de Sosa, who was expected to win the election easily, received 60.7% of the vote.

Socialist counter-Candidate Ana Gomes came in second with 12.9 per cent of the vote, but in third place by very little was extreme right Andre Ventura, writes The Guardian, records Periscopi.

38-year-old People's Party Chega é, meaning “is enough” from Portuguese, he said he was racing “to print the left”.

Portugal has not seen the establishment of anti-European parties as in other European Union countries.

Ventura ) who is an ally of France's Marine Le Penny and Italy's Matteo Salvin had secured his party's first and only parliamentary seat in 2019 legislative elections, winning 70 thousand votes, or 1.3 percent.

But in Sunday's elections, he doubled the election outcome by going to 11.9 per cent, with nearly 500,000 votes. /Periscope