Portuguese Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader Antonio Costa escorts his wife Fernanda Tadeu to a polling station in Lisbon, Sunday (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)
An exit poll in Portugal’s general election suggests the center-left Socialist Party has been reelected, beating its main rival, the center-right Social Democratic Party.
The poll by Portugal’s Catholic University for public broadcaster RTP estimated that the Socialists collected between 37%-42% of the vote Sunday, with the Social Democrats taking 30%-35%.
The poll did not take into account the about 1.5 million people, out of an electorate of 10.8 million eligible voters, who live abroad and can vote by mail.
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