Your link is just a right-wing magazine known for being extremely loose with the facts
Would you prefer Reuters?
Oct 2019 LISBON (Reuters) - "Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa aims to retain power at Sunday’s parliamentary election with a pledge that looks like an unlikely vote-winner for western Europe’s poorest country - no backtracking on tight spending controls."
"As populist governments across the rest of Europe look to ramp up spending amid fears of recession, Costa has campaigned for fiscal discipline to preserve the hard-won results of austerity imposed in the wake of Portugal’s 2011 debt crisis."
“Perhaps it’s best for the austerity not to end completely, or we run the risk of going overboard as happened before the crisis,”
"While Costa’s government declared in 2016 that it had “turned the page on austerity” by reversing some pay cuts and tax hikes imposed by the previous administration, it has since become more frugal. It has refused to raise salaries for teachers and civil servants, while the total tax burden reached a record high 35.4% of GDP in 2018."
"Even with wages largely stuck at pre-crisis levels of almost a decade ago, ordinary people say they have felt improvements lately."
www.reuters.com/article/us-portugal-election-austerity/in-austerity-scarred-portugal-fiscal-discipline-is-a-vote-winner-idUSKBN1WI131
How about a left-wing magazine with very similar thoughts to the right-wing magazine?
The Portuguese Myth
2018 "Portugal’s Socialist-led government looks like an exception to the decline of European social democracy. But its record in fighting austerity is less clear."
"The contradiction is that while Portugal is known for having a left-wing government, it is not meaningfully an “anti-austerity” administration."
"A rhetoric of limiting poverty has come to replace any call to resist the austerity policies being imposed at the European level."
"a new “center-left” in power—one that would not spearhead any serious resistance to the imposition of austerity measures."
"in a climate of slow but steady economic recovery at the European and national level, it allowed the PS [Socialist Party] to use the breathing space to its own advantage" "with the introduction of austerity-lite policies." "At the same time, it was the perfect moment to co-opt the Left into a very difficult situation of supporting a government that would never be meaningfully anti-austerity or adopt the Left’s own demands."
jacobinmag.com/2018/06/portugal-left-bloc-socialist-party-austerity
"I've never seen a poster on here who tries so desperately to appear intelligent and achieves so absolutely the opposite."
How rude.