Portuguese Government Falls After Lawmakers Block Coelho's Plan
- Parliament votes 123 to 107 against Coelho's government
- President Silva must decide on who leads next administration
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. center, flanked by Portuguese vice prime minister Paulo Portas. left, and Portuguese finance minister Maria Luis Albuquerque, right, during a debate at the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon on November 9, 2015.
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Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho was forced from power less than six weeks after winning Portugal’s general election as a loose alliance of opposition parties voted down his program for governing.
The Socialists, the Left Bloc, Communists and Greens formed a parliamentary majority to push through a motion rejecting Coelho’s plans by 123 votes to 107 in the 230-seat parliament, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, the assembly’s president, said Tuesday.