Mr Durao Barroso has already had to fend off a leadership challenge this year, from his long-standing rival Pedro Santana Lopes.
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Mr Durao Barroso's predecessor, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, insists that having done the job once (and quite well), he will not return.
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One, points out Mr Durao Barroso, is that the combined vote of the Socialists and the Communists would still be larger than that of the two right-wing parties.