Urgent: Portuguese center-right minority gov't ousted in parliamentary vote

Portugal's left-wing opposition parties ousted the country's centre-right minority government Tuesday in a parliamentary vote, less than two weeks after it was sworn in.

The main opposition Socialist Party, the Left Boc and the Portuguese Communist Party voted in Parliament for a motion rejecting the government's program, which has forced the short-lived center-right minority government led by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho to resign after the Oct. 4 general election. Endit