Compared to 2024, the AD gains at least 9 deputies (emigration circles still need to be counted) and around 50,000 votes, totalling 89 parliamentarians and 32.7% of the votes.

The coalition led by Luís Montenegro increased the difference in relation to its direct opponents: PS and Chega currently have 58 deputies, when, in the previous legislature, PSD and PS had the same 78 parliamentarians.

Given these results, the AD leader said he “does not see any other government solution” that does not involve PSD and CDS-PP, considering that a scenario, arithmetically possible, of a coalition between PS and Chega is “neither credible nor admissible”.

“The people want this Prime Minister and they don’t want another; the people want this Government to engage in dialogue with the opposition, but the people also want the opposition to respect and engage in dialogue with this Government and with this Prime Minister,” he stressed.

Asked if he still says “no means no” to the party led by André Ventura, he said he has already shown that he keeps his word. In this electoral campaign, he reaffirmed that he does not count on Chega for government solutions.

“I am sure that a sense of responsibility will prevail, not only for the full assumption of powers by the Government, but for the conditions for executing the Government's program in four years,” he said.

When asked about the possibility of a commission of inquiry into his family's company, Spinumviva, which was at the origin of the political crisis, he replied that what led to early legislative elections was “the rejection of a motion of confidence in the Assembly of the Republic”, asking everyone to “respect the will of the Portuguese people”.

In response to journalists' questions, Luís Montenegro never left any sign of distinction between PS and Chega – always speaking “in opposition” – nor did he anticipate whether or not he would speak with IL in relation to the next legislature.

Regarding the possibility of carrying out a constitutional review without needing the PS, which is happening for the first time in a democracy – the AD has two thirds with Chega and IL – he refused to speak, for now, on this subject, as well as about a future socialist leader.

Results

The AD won on Sunday in 15 of the 20 electoral districts already counted: in relation to 2024, it regained first place in Lisbon, Coimbra, Santarém and Castelo Branco, with one more deputy in each of them; It also strengthened its leadership in Porto, Viana do Castelo, Vila Real, Viseu and the Azores (one more deputy for each of these constituencies).

This means that the PSD/CDS-PP coalition only failed to win in the southernmost districts: Faro, Beja, Évora, Portalegre (where it was once again not elected) and Setúbal.

In 2024, the AD had won 12 of the 22 constituencies: Aveiro, Braga, Bragança, Guarda, Leiria, Porto, Viana do Castelo, Vila Real, Viseu, Azores, Madeira and Outside Europe.

The coalition rose by around four percentage points compared to a year ago, but fell short of the previous victory of Pedro Passos Coelho's Portugal à Frente coalition, which obtained 36.8% of the votes and 102 deputies in 2015, but was unable to govern.