Portuguese Political Parties Advertise For Early Legislative Elections

LISBON, PORTUGAL - JANUARY 20: A woman stands between a Chega! far-right political party billboard campaign poster, showing a portrait of its leader André Ventura, and a Socialist Party campaign poster with a picture of its leader Pedro Nuno Santos displayed in Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques for the Portuguese early legislative elections to be held on March 10, 2024, on January 20, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal. The leaders of the governmental Socialist Party, Pedro Nuno Santos, and the main opposition Social Democratic Party, Luis Montenegro, will lead their parties for the first time in this occasion. The Portuguese crisis began on November 7, 2023, when the Public Prosecutor's Office ordered a search that included the Prime Minister's office, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Action and the Ministry of Infrastructure, while investigating active and passive corruption and prevarication in relation to concessions for lithium mining in northern Portugal, a project for a green hydrogen production plant and a project for a data center. This led to the resignation of Antonio Costa and the fall of Portugal's XXIII Constitutional Government. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa decreed the dissolution of parliament on January 15, previously announced on November 09, 2023, and the calling of early legislative elections. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)