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Portugal moved up in the Democracy Index produced annually by The Economist magazine, from a \u201cflawed democracy\u201d to a \u201cfully democratic country\u201d, it was announced.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 2019 report was released on Wednesday by The Economist Intelligence Unit and is under the theme “A year of democratic setbacks and popular protest”. <\/span><\/p>\n

The study highlights that \u201ctwo Western European countries have moved up from the\u201c failed democracy \u201dcategory to a\u201c fully democratic country\u201d: France and Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to The Economist, “both saw improvements”. \u201cIn Portugal, the category increase marks the culmination of a gradual increase in confidence in political parties and the Government\u201d, stresses the study, which links this issue with the setback in the austerity implemented during the financial crisis. The study says that Portugal was already on the threshold of the category of full democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Portugal achieved an overall score of 8.03 (out of 10), placing itself in position 22 in the general classification and 15 in the regional classification. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the category of electoral process and pluralism, the magazine attributes Portugal 9.58, 7.86 in the functioning of the Government, 6.11 in political participation, 7.50 in political culture and 9.12 with regard to civil liberties.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 2018 report, under the theme \u201cPolitical participation, protest and democracy\u201d, Portugal was awarded an overall score of 7.84 (out of 10). In the area of \u200b\u200bpolitical participation Portugal has a score of 6.11, in political culture 6.88, in civil liberties 9.12 and in the functioning of government and pluralism 9.58.<\/p>\n

In addition to France (8.12) and Portugal (8.03), Chile (8.08) also rose to the highest category in the study, a group comprising 22 countries. At the top of the list is Norway, with an overall score of 9.87 (out of 10). Instead, Malta went down to the category of “failed democracy”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only in 2006 and 2008 did Portugal achieve a better score than the current one, with 8.16 and 8.05 respectively.<\/p>\n

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By P\u00fablico, February 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal moved up in the Democracy Index produced annually by The Economist magazine, from a \u201cflawed democracy\u201d to a \u201cfully democratic country\u201d, it was announced.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[222,64],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPortugal is a \u201cfully democratic country\u201d - Conselho da Di\u00e1spora Portuguesa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/news\/portugal-is-a-fully-democratic-country\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Portugal is a \u201cfully democratic country\u201d - 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