Portugal held its third election in as many years. The ballot was called in March after Prime Minister Luís Montenegro failed to win a confidence vote in parliament — a vote that he himself had proposed. Exit polls suggest that the incumbent centre-right Democratic Alliance received the most votes, with the centre-left Socialists in second place. Support for the far-right Chega party appeared to rise to 20 per cent, putting them in third place. The Portuguese political landscape has become