2009-09-28 06:48:16 - The main opposition party headed by conservative leader Manuela Ferreira Leite has conceded defeat.
"The people have spoken with a clear voice. The PS has been re-elected to govern Portugal," said Socrates at an election party in Lisbon.

The center-left Socialist Party of Portugal has won a clear victory in the sunday country's parliamentary elections.Socialist party failed to defend its absolute majority after campaigning for a major public works program to create jobs.
Portugal's ruling Socialist Party, leader Jose Socrates, continue to be in power the premier re-elected following Sunday's parliamentary elections.

Fag end of Votes counted the center-left Socialists

polled more than thirty six percent of the vote, and its opposition party center-right Social Democratic Party held twenty nine percent.Voter turnout was estimated at around 60 percent. About 9.5 million Portuguese were eligible to vote for candidates in the 230-seat parliament.

Prime Minister Jose Socrates has pledge to push a social and economic reform program, despite opposition from unions and opposition parties to mitgate jobless and other economical crisis. Portugal is struggling to deal with an economic crisis which has the country's highest jobless rate in last two decades.The electoral commission said that the conservative nationalist CDS/PP stood third with 10.46 percent, ahead of the conservative nationalist CDS/PP with 9.85 percent. Both political outfit the CDU and the Left Bloc have ruled out forming a coalition with the Socrates' ruling Socialists.