Portugal was once considered immune to the far right. Then political instability offered the populist Chega party the ...

Chega, which means "Enough," secured 60 of the National Assembly's 230 seats after it picked up two more seats on Wednesday from the overseas voters of the European Union country of 10.6 million ...

Portugal's far-right Chega won a record vote share in Sunday's snap election and was vying to become the main opposition party as the ruling centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) again fell short ...

That is the context in which Chega is attempting to break the two-party system. Prior to last weekend's elections, its best election results earned it 12 seats in the national parliament two years ...

Chega’s strides since the May 18 election coincide with gains elsewhere by far-right forces. In Europe, those include France’s National Rally, the Brothers of Italy and Alternative for Germany ...

Chega’s leader, André Ventura, declared Sunday that the era of two-sided politics in Portugal, fought between the center right and the center left, “is over.” ...

Chega has grown rapidly since its creation in 2019, when it won 1.3% of the vote in an election that year and the far-right's first seat since the end of Portugal's dictatorship in 1974.

Portuguese right-wing politician André Ventura has been discharged from hospital, a day after falling ill during a campaign rally ahead of Sunday's election. The leader of Chega, a hard-right ...

Chega campaigned promising higher salaries and better conditions for workers, who the party said had been impoverished by a greedy elite. It fought against mixed-gender bathrooms in schools and ...

It remains to be seen how much higher the once-marginal Chega will be able to rise. But it is clear that its rapid growth in popularity has already upended Portugal’s post-1974 order.