Reuters
Portugal's leading contender for prime minister, Luis Montenegro, expects his promise of tax cuts for the middle class, young and companies to win enough votes for his centre-right Social Democratic Party to secure a majority in a March 10 snap election. Montenegro, 50, told Reuters on Tuesday he was also sure that last month's collapse after a series of scandals of the long-running, majority centre-left Socialist government would play into his hands, with its habitual supporters punishing it at the polls. Most opinion polls put Montenegro's Social Democratic Party (PSD) neck and neck with the Socialist Party, and many analysts fear a post-election quagmire as they doubt he can clinch a working parliamentary majority without support from the far-right Chega party.