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Social Democrat PSD party leader Pedro Passos Coelho talks to his supporters after the results announcement of the Portuguese general elections in Lisbon June 5, 2011
Monday, Jun. 06, 2011

Open quoteWhen you have hit the wall like our economy has, you have to accept that it's time to gamble on a change of direction and give somebody new a chance.Close quote

  • JOSE COSTAS,
  • a social worker in Portugal, on why he voted for the country's Social Democrat Party in Sunday's election instead of the governing Socialist Party
Photo: Jose Manuel Ribeiro / Reuters | Source: New York Times