>>>>And obvously, wrong is whatever is not right enough:
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>>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11949701/AEP-Eurozone-crosses-Rubicon-as-Portugals-anti-euro-Left-banned-from-power.html
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>>>According to the article, Portugal is in worse fiscal shape than Greece. If so there will likely be a Greek-style crisis at some point and Merkel and the German taxpayers will be asked to bail them out.
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>>>If the elected majority government is recognized, the crisis happens now. Not recognizing it may buy some time. I suspect Germany and the rest of the EU already has serious donor fatigue; will extra time affect that, and subsequent negotiations?
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>>>The article claims "Mr Cavaco Silva is effectively using his office to impose a reactionary ideological agenda, in the interests of creditors and the EMU establishment, and dressing it up with remarkable Chutzpah as a defence of democracy." My take is it's more realpolitik than ideology.
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>>So how is this democracy?
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>I'm not saying it's democracy, it's realpolitik.

It's a coup. Just had a friend here check the protuguese constitution, article 187 clearly says that the president consults the parties, and then appoints the mandatar according to the results of the election. He's taken a role of an arbiter and chose to ignore the results of the elections. If that's not a coup, I'd like to know what it is, then.