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DélioPT said:
Kantor said:
Are they actually right wing, or just another crappy "centre-right" party which is now equivalent to most countries' left-wing parties?


That`s a question that i really don`t know how to answer as i don`t really understand "wings" in their essence. But PSD have been said to be more liberal and they really aren`t overprotective as our left-wing parties. But they do care for the social side, for those who aren`t able to take care of themselves. They just act differently than your normal left wing parties.

Actually PSD in it's current format (A.K.A - With Pedro Passos Coelho leadership) is leaning more towards the liberal side, but it's still a heavily centre-right party. Many of the politics that they'll enforce are similar to what PS would enforce, just coated with different wording. But since they're making a coalition with the CDS-PP party, which is more of a true right-wing party, they'll have to make some common ground between both parties, and that will lead to more right-wind minded politics than if PSD were leading as a single majority. 

Kinda how it was during the 2002-2005 PSD/CDS-PP coalition government (Durão Barroso first and then Santana Lopes, with Paulo Portas being the minister of defense). 

The problem with our political divisions (well, one of the many) is that the current 5 political parties with parlament seat in Portugal don't fit the "normal" model for left or right wings.

PS is to the left and PSD is to the right, but both are heavily center based, with much more things in common than in separation. CDS-PP is the only right political party. CDU and BE are extreme left, with CDU being a heavily communist based party (which uses the Democrat suffix to gain votes only, they have no democrat policies whatsoever) and BE being what you would call "socialist-anarchists".
So even with CDU and BE being left wing parties, their positions are so extremed that they would never support any kind of political input that PS have (and because of that, it led to the political push to get PS out of the government, which PSD quickly took advantage of). On the contrary, PSD and CDS-PP have much more common ground between then. 

And that's Portuguese politics in a nutshell = crap.





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