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Portugal's ruling coalition ahead before general elections

Xinhua, September 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Portugal's ruling coalition is rising ahead of the main opposition Socialist Party in the run up to the general elections on Oct. 4, according to a daily tracking poll released on Monday by Intercampus.

Both parties dropped in respondents' preferences, with the coalition down two tenths. The tracking put Forward Portugal at 37.8 percent of voting intentions, while the Socialist Party dropped almost a percentage point and was put at 32.1 percent.

Just five days away from the end of the election campaign, the number of undecided voters dropped 1.4 percentage points to 21.4 percent.

The Left Block rose 0.8 percentage point to 7.5 percent while the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU) rose 0.1 percentage point to 9.1 percent.

The tracking poll kicked off last Tuesday, interviewing almost 1,000 people.

Radical parties in Portugal have not seen the success that Greece's ruling Syriza party and Spain's own far-left Podemos have.

Portugal is likely to reelect Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho's center-right ruling party on Sunday, despite almost four years of harsh austerity measures imposed under the 78 billion euro bailout program the country signed with international lenders when it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

The center-left Socialist has been running almost neck and neck with the ruling coalition and has criticized the ruling coalition for spending cuts and tax hikes, while Passos Coelho has insisted that strict austerity has made economic recovery possible. Enditem