Por: Pedro Magalhães Political scientist

[…] This piece about Portugal being the “missing link” in a wave of party system transformation in Southern Europe had me quickly thinking about a another way of visualising Portugal’s specificity, if any. So here it is. I show the electoral scores of the member parties of the European Popular Party and the Party of European Socialists in the three countries since their first democratic elections. For 2015, while Greece is measured using the 2015 election results, for Spain and Portugal I use the latest poll estimates (here and here). […]