
Argentina Elections: Right wins presidency, struggle goes on
In a blow to the left, right wing candidate, Mauricio Macri, beat Daniel Scioli, the candidate of the ruling leftist Front, by 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent.

Portugal: Socialist government takes power with Left support
Antonio Luis Santos da Costa of the Socialist Party, forms a government with the support of the Communist, Ecologist (Green) and Left Bloc deputies in the national parliament.

Socialist coalition hands right-wing Portuguese government defeat
The unity in Portugal has been made possible by a very evident left turn on the part of the Socialist Party.

