I forgot to post about it but last week something crazy happened on portuguese public TV. So we're gonna have elections in may because parliament has been dissolved after the PM was mired in corruption scandals (I wrote about it here) and they're gonna have 10 minute speedrun interviews with each party leader, last week was the portuguese communist party general secretary Paulo Raimundo's turn, the interviewer was Jose Rodrigues dos Santos who is a lifetime teleprompter reader for the public television RTP and also writes Dan Brown-esque novels that, sadly, make him the most popular (in terms of sales) portuguese author today (Jose Saramago is crying in his grave).

The interview was, I shit you not, literally 10 minutes of the guy asking Raimundo whether he supports "sending weapons to ukraine", "arming ukraine", "defeating putin", "arming europe" and shit like that, with Raimundo always saying that the party doesn't support any of that and that there should've been and still should be negotiations to end the war, which it's what the party's been saying since the war started. As blatant as it was, I saw that even some anti-communist pro-war people were freaked out at the unprofessionalism of the interviewer, it does fucking suck that there wasn't any space for Raimundo to talk about housing (major issue right now), corruption, wages and unions, so anyone who watched that is gonna be thinking the PCP is just the "ukraine war party" when really no one should care about that shit.

Aside from that there have been a couple of polls and to summarize the results, like I suspected, the ruling party who's PM literally gets a monthly salary on the side for his family's consultancy service to a casino conglomerate and a housing conglomerate is likely to end up in first place, the socialist party will probably lose vote share for being perceived as having caused the crisis, so will the leftist Bloco de Esquerda due to an internal scandal, the right wing liberals will likely rise a bit, the far right will remain as it is or lose a bit also due to scandals but remain in 3rd place, the communists might regain a bit of their vote share (although the real question is whether they'll regain their strongholds in the interior, which they lost in the last election) and, worse of all, the pro-war eurocuck greens will probably get the most votes of the 3 parties to the left of the socialist party.

We got a teaser of this scenario earlier last week when in the regional elections in Madeira the ruling party (which has never lost an election in the region despite it being incredibly poor) even with the leading guy from the party's Madeira branch being investigated for corruption by the public prosecutor, actually increased its vote share and was 1 seat away from absolute majority. Note that 2 years ago the decently popular socialist PM Costa (now in president of the european council) RESIGNED because the public prosecutor revealed they were investigating him for corruption only to find out nothing.

So the conclusion is that the public prosecutor has been totally discredited, even though EVERY portuguese person will tell you they hate corruption and that the country is rife with it.

Lastly, a tragedy has struck the ruling government coalition, see it's a coalition called Democratic Alliance composed by the Social Democratic Party (Center Right), Democract Social Center (Right) and Popular Monarchist Party (monarchist, yes in Portugal, yes they want the king back). The only reason the PSD brought the monarchists is was so that they could use the name DA, since that was used once in the 1980s by the same parties, problem is that the monarchists, not seeing that they're goals were being achieved by this coalition, has already declared they won't run in the May elections with the other 2 parties and legally that means the PSD and CDS can't use the name DA. They tried to sneak around it by proposing to run under "AD - Aliança Democrática - PSD/CDS", the court struck that down, so they're gonna have to come up with a new name until May.