BE and the Elections

BE stands for Bloco de Esquerda (Left Wing Block) and they have always been my favourite political party.
They are the gathering of 3 small left wing parties (it's 3 isn't it?) and I still remember when one of them (PSR) threw a bucket full of animal feaces (or shite, or dung) to Jean-Marie Le Pen when he dared to go to Portugal to make extreme right political alliances with the ultra-right shite-y party that we used to have. I loved it. It marked my start in kind-of-active Politics.

From the results of yesterday's Portuguese Parliament elections, apart from the obvious winners - the Socialist Party won with an absolute majority of 45% of the votes - BE are the runners-up, with a result that nearly trebled their previous one, they got from 3 to 8 elected MPs [4 for Lisbon, 2 for Setubal and 2 for Porto] [They were 400 votes short of electing 1 MP for Braga, and 200 votes short of another for Aveiro]

The results, as published by the News Agency Lusa (oh memories...) are:

PS (Socialists - centre-left)........... 120 MPs
PSD (Social Democrats - centre-right) ... 72 MPs
CDU (Communists + Green - left) ......... 14 MPs
CDS-PP (Popular Party - right) .......... 12 MPs
BE (left) ................................ 8 MPs

The previous government was a PSD + CDS-PP coallition and I'm glad they were clearly defeated. The non-elected former Prime Minister, Pedro Santana Lopes has always been known for being someone who wouldn't finish anything in his professional or political career. He has a thing with spotlights, he's always there where there is a speech to be made or an opinion to give.

I'm quite optimistic with these results, as I believe that any new situation could never be worst than the one of the past 2 and a half years.