Surge for far-right party in Portugal – as it happened

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A first exit poll, carried out for SIC and Expresso, shows the following:

Centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD): 27.6 to 31.8% (with 77 to 89 deputies)

I honestly don't know what I'm more afraid of - a xenophobic and racist far-right party exerting pressure on a democratic right-wing party, or if a government agreement with the Liberals who pose a threat to a worsening of the public services that are available to a big portion of the country only because they are free - health and education.

Ultimately, the parties who have ruled the country since the people have taken the power back from a dictatorship need to acknowledge how their failure at managing the public sector and giving a response to the very real concerns of the general public, whether they were on the agenda or not, is what is fuelling the far right. They need to step up how they govern and how they do politics, regardless of who wins tonight.