Pedro Santana Lopes, the mayor of Lisbon, will succeed José Manuel Barroso as Prime Minister of Portugal after he was nominated by the ruling Social Democrats on Sunday to take over the post.
However, Mr Santana Lopes' reputation as a populist leader with eurosceptic leanings, have drawn criticism from his own Social Democrat party as well as from rival parties, the FT reports.
The centre-left Socialists, the main opposition party, had called for an early election after Mr Barroso...
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