{"id":14281,"date":"2015-11-11T07:51:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14281"},"modified":"2015-11-11T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:52:02","slug":"anti-austerity-bloc-brings-down-portugals-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14281","title":{"rendered":"Anti-austerity bloc brings down Portugal’s government"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Left parties vote at the end of a debate on government programs at the parliament in Lisbon, Portugal November 10, 2015 \u00a9 Rafael Marchante \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Portugal\u2019s pro-austerity government has been forced to resign by a leftist anti-austerity block, despite being sworn in only two weeks ago.<\/div>\n
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Proposals to continue austerity policies were blocked in parliament, backed by mass public anger, forcing the government to dissolve.<\/p>\n

The moderate Socialists worked with the Communist Party and radical Left Bloc to form a majority that voted down fresh austerity proposals today.<\/p>\n

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#<\/span>AltPt<\/span><\/a> Thousands wait for the fall of government in #<\/span>Portugal<\/span><\/a> Lot of police deployed to Pa<\/p>\n

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Following the October 4th general election, the anti-austerity leftist majority was explicitly prevented from forming a government by the president, citing \u2018the national interest\u2019.<\/p>\n

One of Europe\u2019s troubled PIGS, Portugal took a \u20ac78 billion bailout in 2011 and since then has spiraled into austerity dead-end fueling mass social unrest and emigration.<\/p>\n

Sweeping cuts and increased taxes led to large street protests and strikes. Unemployment peaked at 17.7% in 2013.<\/p>\n

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Anti-austerity bloc brings down Portugal’s government Left parties vote at the end of a debate on government programs at the parliament in Lisbon, Portugal November 10, 2015 \u00a9 Rafael Marchante \/ Reuters Portugal\u2019s pro-austerity government has been forced to resign by a leftist anti-austerity block, despite being sworn in only two weeks ago. Proposals to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2892,279,281,284,4696],"class_list":["post-14281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-austerity","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14283,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281\/revisions\/14283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}