(10 Mar 2024)
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Lisbon - 10 March 2024
1. Various of crowd's reaction to seeing the exit polls at the Socialist party headquarters
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Antonia Baptista, 86-year-old pensioner/Socialist Party supporter:
"Nothing is definitive yet. The results are not definitive yet but it seems all is a big mess. Let's see."
3. Wide of supporters
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Alice Rebelo, Socialist Party supporter:
"Our prime minister was a great man, our prime minister Antonio Costa, I'm very sorry, I'm very shocked, very moved, my chest hurts, I feel sick."
5. Wide of Socialist Party member/Head of campaign Joao Torres at lectern
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) João Torres, Socialist Party member and head of campaign:
"As exit polls were revealed at 8pm local time in Portugal, they point to the Socialist Party being the second most voted political force in these elections on the 10th of March. If confirmed, these projections point to a result that falls short to the expectations that the Socialist party had and worked for with great commitment and dedication, but that's democracy."
7. Various of people cheering and chanting
8. Various of supporters talking and waiting
STORYLINE:
The Portuguese Socialist Party supporters reacted to exit polls in Portugal's general election on Sunday in Lisbon.
João Torres, Socialist Party member and head of campaign, warned that if the exit polls are confirmed, it would "point to a result that falls short to the expectations that the Socialist party had and worked for with great commitment and dedication."
"But that's democracy," he added.
The poll suggested that the race was too close to call, with two moderate mainstream parties apparently poised to gather the most votes amid a predicted surge in support for a radical right populist party that could place third.
The poll predicted 29-33% of the vote for the center-right Democratic Alliance, a grouping led by the Social Democratic Party.
The center-left Socialist Party gathered 25-29%, the poll indicated.
Populist party Chega (Enough) may have got 14-17% in third place, it suggested, up from 7% at the last election in 2022, in a drift to the political right witnessed elsewhere in the European Union.
Most results were expected by 2300 GMT.
The poll by Portugal’s Catholic University was published by public broadcaster RTP and in previous elections has proved largely accurate.
The Social Democrats and Socialists have alternated in power for decades, but they have never come up against such a strong challenge from a hard-right party.
AP video shot by Helena Alves and Joana Merlini
Production: Joana Merlini
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