Central Bloc () is the name given in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

to the

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of the

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and the

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which ruled from 1983 to 1985, and to any potential coalition between those two parties.

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