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Holding elections under the pressure of a pandemic hasbecome old hat for Portugal. In sum, there is clearly a pool of potential voters inPortugal for a populist, far-right party like Chega toexploit, an electorate that, even with somecountry-specific particularities, resembles that of otherEuropean far-right parties. Since Chega was founded in 2019 by former PSD-member andpopular soccer commentator Andre Ventura, the party hasbeen running on a classic populist right platform. [Extracted from the article] |