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CONSERVATIVE Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho opened a two-day debate in parliament yesterday that is expected to conclude with a vote today to make his government the shortest ever.
The opposition Socialist Party (PS) has forged an alliance with the Left Bloc and the CDU coalition, comprising the Communist Party and the Greens, to create a 122-seat majority in the 230-seat parliament and force the government’s resignation.
The left parties have agreed to give the PS a parliamentary majority but decline ministries in the government.
The PS political committee agreed on Sunday night to instruct the party’s deputies to support a motion to take down the minority right-wing government.
Conservative President Anibal Cavaco Silva had previously refused to ask PS to form a government on the grounds that the left parties are “anti-European forces.”
PS leader Antonio Costa accused his left allies during the election campaign of wanting to take part in demonstrations rather than solving people’s problems.
