The incomprehensible election result

It was ten at night, I looked at the television and everything was backwards.

The electoral map showed that AD was winning in the North and Center, but in the South, in the land that the left had always dominated and governed for 50 years, it was Chega who won.

The map south of the Tagus only left a small consolation prize for the Socialist Party in Évora.

Everything else, the outskirts of Lisbon, the so-called workers' lands, by the Communist Party, which was so proud of its electoral empire, everything was handed over to Chega.

I started to wonder if it was the workers who had given up on the communist tape or if it was the young people who now have to emigrate who were their former voters.

On the left, the Socialist Party, which in the polls appeared as the alternative party to the PSD/CDS coalition, practically disappeared from the electoral map.

Led by an incompetent, arrogant and poorly prepared conceited person, who was always certain that everything he thought would become reality, he never thought he would be transformed into the black beast responsible for the worst moment in the history of socialists who found themselves diminished and surpassed by Chega.

The Bloc, which had always claimed to be the future of salvation for all the less fortunate, became completely disregarded by fortune, and not even its attempt to bring the history channel into the political fight saved it from the shame of having to keep in its leadership someone who had not achieved anything good for its unfortunate members.

The big surprise for the left was the growth of a party that claims to be free, which seems to have received the votes of those who still believe that the solution will be found on the left, but with the change of times preferred to bet on a more seminarist figure, with a more saccharine speech, and without the combativeness that revolutionaries preach and which, based on the results obtained, has ceased to convince.

In a country that has always claimed to be left-wing, where being right-wing was, until very recently, a much-reprimanded public sin, the winning coalition, without reaching the votes for a majority, has more representatives in parliament than the entire left combined.

The most curious thing is that this evolution we are witnessing today in Portugal is not very different from what we have seen happening all over the world.

We have all seen the transfer of votes from the left to the right in most European countries and the reason is not, as many commentators say, because the population is unprepared, but rather because during all these years in which the left has governed, it has never been truly concerned with improving the population's living conditions.

Now, what I consider to be incomprehensible in the results of this electoral act is not so much the radical change in the elected parliament, which results from the different proposals and the credibility of the candidates in the eyes of the population, but rather the absolute inability of the commentators to understand that their opinion is not, and never has been, the truth of the reality of our country.

On election night we heard everything and most analyses always considered that voting for Chega was either a mistake due to poor voter training or simply a vote of discontent.

Because I think that voting for Chega is, as voting for left-wing parties was in the past, a search for a solution for the lives of every Portuguese person and every family.

I don't believe that this vote has this capacity, but those who vote for Chega, in many cases, do so only because they believe.

The analysis of the type of voters for each party gives us some indications regarding the pattern of characteristics that the majority of their voters have and this same analysis has now served to try to show that Chega voters are less prepared than those who vote for other parties.

It is important to remember that it was the left-wing parties, the Socialist Party most of the time and often with the support of the other left-wing parties, that, during all these years since 1974, were responsible for an education system that did not promote the best preparation of these voters and that did not give them the ability to improve their living conditions.

Portugal voted and changed.

In a country where everyone criticizes because nothing changes, we have those responsible for media opinion in a panic because they may have lost their ability to manipulate opinion.

The Democratic Alliance gained and strengthened its leadership position, but the journalistic concern is only with the disappearance of an unprepared and intolerant retrograde left that has lost the power to dominate our daily lives.

The electoral act was carried out democratically and calmly.

It was just misunderstood by those who don't want to change.