Portugal's center-right govt returns to power, but bigger opposition parties say it is doomed
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Portugal's president has invited the center-right coalition government of the past four years to return to power after it won a general election, even though it will be outnumbered in Parliament by opponents who vow to force it out within days.
The coalition won the Oct. 4 ballot with 38.4 percent of votes and will rule as a minority government, with Pedro Passos Coelho expected to continue as prime minister.
But an unprecedented alliance of left-of-center parties, led by the moderate Socialists and including the Communist Party and radical Left Bloc, has 122 seats in the 230-seat Parliament. The alliance says it will use that majority to quickly bring down the government and take power itself.
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President Anibal Cavaco Silva announced his decision in an address to the nation Thursday.