Portugal is living an Elections year. During 2009, European Parliament elections took place on the 7th of June. The Legislative elections will be held on September 27th and on October 11th the Portuguese people will choose their representatives of local governments.

Despite interest that “Politics 2.0” has been generating on media and online, there aren’t many significant developments in political technologies for and by the people. As in rest of the world, Barack Obama’s elections strategy was a closely watched case study that inspired great interest here. Indeed, there were reports saying that Blue State Digital was hired by PS (Socialist Party in government) to implement actions online, a fact that was soon revealed to be not really true. The national and Brazilian spin doctors are still in charge of political marketing strategies.