Media forecasts suggest Portugal has shifted significantly to the right in snap parliamentary elections held on Sunday.
A voter survey by the state TV station RTP, seen as reliable and based on post-election polls, shows the conservative Democratic Alliance (AD) led by top candidate Luís Montenegro won the election and could receive up to 33% of the vote.
Pedro Nuno Santos' Socialist Party (PS), in power for eight years, would come in second with up to 29%.
Far-right Chega (Enough) improved from just over 7% in the last election at the beginning of 2022 to up to a 17% share now.
Other Portuguese media such as Público newspaper published similar figures to RTP in the evening shortly after the last polling stations in the Azores closed at 9 pm (2200 GMT).
If the vote count confirms these results, forming a government is likely to prove difficult.
