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Veteran center-left politician Antonio Jose Seguro has won 66% of the vote, seeing off a challenge from the far-right.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, well, in the first round of the Presidential Elections the Fascist candidate had the 2nd largest number of votes and the one from the Hard Neoliberal Party (who in their early days wanted to privatize the National Health Service until they discovered that was incredibly unpopular) had the 3rd largest number of votes.

The Revolution was over 50 years ago and a lot of people have forgotten how things used to be before that or simply don't value genuinely Leftwing conquests like the National Health Service and Universal Education (which have been slowly undermined in the last 2 decades or so) from the short post-revolution power when Leftwing ideals were much more dominant (before things slid into the "2 main parties dominance" system that voting systems with electoral circles and no proportional vote invariably create).

[–] Humana@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I agree with everything you are saying. What I'm saying is actually living under fascism has made Portugal and Spain more resistant to fascism and other right wing non-sense than other countries in Europe. Not perfectly immune, and this will not last forever in the face of limitless digital propaganda, but for now resistant enough.