# Professor Luís Cabral discusses Portugal's election results

1 Faculty News November 7, 2015 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/world/europe/rising-left-bloc-in-portugal-could-threaten-austerity-drive.html?_r=0) -- "'We’re at an incredible impasse,' said [Luís Cabral](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/luis-cabral), a Portuguese economist and professor at New York University. 'There are two different readings of this election, both legitimate, but with opposite prescriptions in terms of what should be done next.'"

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