(June 25, 2016 at 4:33 am)abaris Wrote: We had the same picture in our recent presidential elections. Big cities voted for the moderate candidate, while the countryside voted for the right wing nationalist and EU sceptic. We also have a peculiar situation, since a quarter of the population lives in the capital. I'm pretty sure, if something like that would happen in Portugal, you would see the same divide between city and countryside, problematic and thriving regions. The answer is always the same. The divide runs between the ones feeling left out and the ones feeling to have a real chance in life. It also runs between old and young people.
In Portugal, there's more of a north/south divide.
North of Coimbra, people lean more to the right - Social-democrats, or so they call themselves.
South of the River Tagus, people lean more to the communist side.
Lisbon, around which some 20%~30% of the population live, goes more toward the "center" - the Socialists.
(I know, the names of these parties and their alignments don't match up with anything else, huh? [well, except the communists])
