Maioria Relativa

Maioria Relativa ("Relative Majority") is a political satire game about governing Portugal without a majority. Every week brings a new crisis: maternity wards closing, train strikes, the airport that never leaves the drawing board, a missing MEP, a sardine quota cut just before the June festivals. Pick a response and read the next morning's headline. FIVE SOURCES OF SUPPORT The President, your Party, the Street, the Media and Brussels. If any of them hits zero, you fall. THE BALANCE You have no majority. Every law needs one of the other two parties. Lean too far to one side and a motion of no confidence follows. THREE PARTIES, THREE WAYS TO FALL Govern for Almost (centre-left, always almost there), Maybe (centre-right, in government for now) or Megaphone (radical right: won the election, now what?). AND MORE • Over 400 crises, including 202 “Backstage” ones: lobbying, consultancies, the…