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Portuguese See U.S. As Threat to World Peace
- Many adults in Portugal are concerned about the role of the United States in global affairs, according to a poll by Aximage released by Correio da Manha. 52.3 per cent of respondents think the U.S. is the greatest threat to world peace.
In March 2003, Portuguese prime minister Jose Durao Barroso of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) hosted a high-level meeting at the Azores islands, along with U.S. president George W. Bush, British prime minister Tony Blair and Spanish president José María Aznar, to discuss the situation in Iraq.
The PSD's Pedro Santana Lopes took over as prime minister in July 2004, after Durao Barroso left the post to become president of the European Commission. The Socialist Party (PS) won the February 2005 parliamentary ballot in the European nation, garnering 45.3 per cent of the vote and electing 121 lawmakers to the 230-seat Assembly of the Republic. Socialist leader Jose Socrates took over as prime minister in March 2005.
The Portuguese government committed 128 members of the Portuguese Republican National Guard (GNR) to the U.S.-led coalition effort in Iraq. The law enforcement officers worked under Italian command in Nasiriya from November 2003 to February 2005.
Polling Data
Would you say the United States is the greatest threat to world peace?
Yes | 52.3% |
No | 37.6% |
Not sure | 10.1% |
Source: Aximage / Correio da Manha
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 500 Portuguese adults, conducted from Jun. 20 to Jun. 22, 2006. No margin of error was provided.