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Portugal's Socrates looks for coalition partners

Socialist leader and Prime Minister Jose Socrates, who lost his absolute majority in parliament, is now faced with the choice of governing alone or building a coalition in a more fractured chamber. Full Article at Deutsche Welle

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  1. Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates delivers his speech, watched by President Anibal Cavaco Silva, right,  after being sworn in for a second term Monday, Oct. 26 2009, at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon following his Socialist Party election win.
  2. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) is welcomed by Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates (R) upon his arrival at Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon on September 4, 2008 before heading to Libya.
  3. (L to R) European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates and Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany chat during a ceremony at Hegyeshalom, on the Austro-Hungarian border near Slovakia, 22 December 2007, to welcome nine mainly eastern European countrie...
  4. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (C), European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) and Portugese Prime Minister Jose Socrates (L) chat prior to a joint press conference 21 December 2007 in Bratislava during ceremonies for the expansion of the Schengen zone.
  5. ZITTAU, GERMANY - DECEMBER 21:  (L-R) Czech Republic Prime minister Mirek Topolanek , European parliament president Hans-Gert Poettering, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, German Chancelor Angela Merkel,  Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates and European Commission President Jose Manuel Bar...
  6. European Union leaders pose for a family picture after they signed a landmark treaty 13 December 2007, at the Jeronimo monastery in Lisbon.'History will remember this day as a day when new paths of hope were opened to the European ideal,' Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said ahead of the...
  7. BEIJING - NOVEMBER 28: Portugal's Prime Minister and European Union President Jose Socrates (L) looks on as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) smiles at China's President Hu Jintao before their meeting in the Great Hall of the People November 28, 2007 in Beijing.
  8. Nick Reilly (L) interim head of General Motor's European business and Kurt Beck, state premier of Rhineland-Palatinate of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) attend a news conference in Mainz November 24, 2009.
  9. DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13:  Sigmar Gabriel, new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), speaks at the SPD party congress on November 13, 2009 in Dresden, Germany.

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