I think any European country right now that votes would vote for the party currently not in power. In Germany, that would mean a shift to the left, in Portugal it means a shift to the right.

This is due to the people being a bit pissed everywhere, but has little to do with a shift in their political views, imo.

They could spend that much money, low unemployed numbers, a lot of companies investing in the country, a bank sector that drives it.....  It is no big surprise ifthe bank sector crumbles (responsible for the low unemployed numbers and heavy economic growths) that the country gets in a problem.  Then again it is always popular to blame the EU socialistic model when everything is going bad but when other countries doing well with the same model like Germany you don't hear 'That is thx to the Eu socialistic model'

i did vote for PS (the ones that were the government) because they did a good job (yes they did spend a lot but we all can see what they did)... in the other side (the one that win) we have a dude that is a two face guy with double standards, that started a political crisis over a tantrum... and we, the Portuguese, are going to suffer a lot because of him... this is a sad day for me...

Pretty much.

With exceptions of course. Usually the exception being that they've already voted the government that was in power through the financial crisis out.

Any party in power can achieve that. I'd say it's more like Faxanadu said, the parties in power are losing. Germany and Italy both have a Centre-Right parties in power at the moment, come their next elections will they lose too? I think there is a high chance.

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.

In this special situation that Portugal has been facing and will face, because of the international aid, the social party wasn`t ready to fully follow that program given by the IMF and EU. For example, the IMF and EU had in their plan a request to substancially reduced one tax, yet the leader of the social party was saying that they were just going to reduce a little bit as to not hurt the portuguese people. I honestly don`t think it`s right to sign that plan one day and in the other, pratically saying you are not going to follow it (that line in particular).
Actually, some people who actually know what they are talking about said that for that tax reduction to have an impact, it really needs to be reduced significantly.

Is it really the same?  Portugal is the P in PIGS for a reason.

They've always had a soverign debt issue when compaired to countries like Germany.

I thought they were going to drive on the right side of the road...now, I am disappointed.

Berlusconi's bound to go in Italy. Italian women are finally getting pissed at the machismo culture en masse and his longstanding support of Qaddafi has to reflect poorly right now

If Berlusconi doesn't drop in the next election, then the Italian Left might as well give up forever...