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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso on Wednesday survived votes of no-confidence from opposition parties over his government's firm support for the Iraq war.
Durao Barroso's Social Democrats and their Popular Party allies voted downed the no-confidence motion by 116 to 109 votes in the 230-seat parliament.
All four left-wing opposition parties, the Socialists, the Communists, the Left Bloc and the Greens, submitted censure motions against the government after Portugal hosted a summit on Iraq between the United States, Britain and Spain on March 16.
The four opposition parties have accused Durao Barroso of blindly following the will of the United States.
Durao Barroso's center-right coalition holds 119 of the 230 seats in the assembly.
(Xinhua News Agency March 27, 2003)
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