{"id":226776,"date":"2026-01-19T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=226776"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:02:33","slug":"a-socialist-or-a-far-right-leader-50-years-on-portugal-heads-for-presidential-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/226776\/","title":{"rendered":"A socialist or a far-right leader? 50 years on, Portugal heads for presidential runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As noted, in the five decades since Portugal threw off its fascist dictatorship, a presidential election has only once before – in 1986 – required a runoff.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moderate Socialist Antonio Jose Seguro came out on top in the first round of Portugal’s presidential election on Sunday, followed by the far-right leader Andre Ventura, and the two will face off in a Feb. 8 runoff, Reuters writes. As noted, in the five decades since Portugal threw off its fascist dictatorship, a presidential election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":226773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226777,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776\/revisions\/226777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}