Why Europe's far-right is winning

Concerns about Immigration and corruption lead to a good result for another far-right party, this time in Portugal.

Elections in Portugal rarely get a lot of attention, and the latest is absolutely no exception. I didn’t even know they’d had an election at all until after it had happened.

But the results prove, yet again, that the European far right is on a roll:

Portugal's centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won Sunday's general election, its leader Luis Montenegro said, though it was unclear if he could govern without the support from far-right Chega, with whom he again refused to negotiate.

Chega's parliamentary representation more than quadrupled to at least 48 lawmakers in the 230-seat legislature, giving the combined right a majority.

The result underscores a political tilt to the far right across Europe. Portugal, which only returned to democracy after the fall of a fascist dictatorship 50 years ago, had long been considered immune to the rise of right-wing populism across the continent, which is expected to result in gains for far-right parties in European elections in June.

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