The recent election in Portugal has led to a change of government. The new prime minister is Pedro Passos Coelho from the PPD/PSD (Social Democratic Party – conservative).

The so-called 19th Constitutional Government is a two-party majority coalition between the PPD/PSD and the CDS-PP (Democratic and Social Centre – People’s Party – centre-right). Details of the new ministers are available in Portuguese here.

There is a nice report on the election by Pedro Magalhães at The Monkey Cage.