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Re:Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain... by masklinn on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:30AM (#15541797)
> As a side note, in my opinion, this is a result of our current governmental situation, which is unprecedented: the center-right party won a relative majority, but the center-left party got the Communist Party and the Left-Bloc (an anti-capitalist left-wing party but without just a single guiding ideology) to support it in Parliament and allow it to form government.

In Portugal? It seems to be a pretty common result in central and northern europe, it's also the result of the very recent NZ elections (the right-wing Nationals got 44.45%, Labour 36.89, NZ First 7.2% and the Greens 10.7%, NZF announced a coalition with Labour with confidence and supply from the Greens).

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Re:Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain... by icebraining on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:34PM (#15543406)
Yes, in Portugal. We're a pretty young democracy for an European country, and historically there was a lot of bad blood between the left-wing parties.
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