Portugal President to Dissolve Parliament (new election!)

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal's president decided Tuesday to dissolve parliament and call early elections after weeks of feuding among ministers, Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes said.

The decision came just four months after Santana Lopes took power. His term was riddled with problems, including disputes over the 2005 state budget and delays that left some classrooms without teachers a month after school opened. The government also faced off with the media for alleged meddling in editorial decisions of newspapers and TV networks.

Santana Lopes, a conservative, was named prime minister in June after Jose Manuel Barroso resigned to become president of the European Commission. Barroso was a firm supporter of the Iraq war, and after major combat stopped he stationed 130 police in the country to help with peacekeeping.

Socialists who opposed the war did well in this summer's elections to the European Parliament, and after Barroso resigned they pressed the president to call elections. But Sampaio instead let the conservatives name a replacement for Barroso, and Santana Lopes took over.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4645302,00.html

.......why can't ours!

The masses here are too complacent AND the gov't is actually run by corporatists who control a lot of things (including the media which does its best to induce complacency in the masses).