Portugal's president is due to convene the country's political parties for consultations after a general election delivered another minority government.

By Sergio Goncalves, Catarina Demony and Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's far-right Chega won a record vote share in Sunday's snap election and was vying to become the main opposition party as the ruling centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) again fell short of a majority needed to end a long period of instability.

Portugal’s third general election in three years has failed to deliver the result that could break the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people.

LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal's far-right Chega won a record vote share in Sunday's snap election and was vying to become the main opposition party as the ruling centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) again fell short of a majority needed to end a long period of instability.

Though Portugal's minority government won the recent snap election, the far-right Chega party's meteoric rise has made real waves. Now the country's centrist parties are under pressure to work better together.

Voters in Portugal are returning to the polls for a third general election in three years, as the country’s increasingly fragmented political landscape defies efforts to unite behind policies on pressing national issues such as immigration,

While the center-right Democratic Alliance is set to rule Portugal again in a minority government, the hard-right Chega party and its anti-immigrant message is seen as a powerful new force.

The Socialist Party (PS) collapses and reaches its worst result in 38 years, with 23.39%, almost tied with the radical right of André Ventura, with 22.67%. Political earthquake in Portugal. The two-party system that has dominated the Portuguese scene since the Carnation Revolution collapsed yesterday like a house of cards.

Portugal’s president will start Tuesday to convene the country’s political parties for consultations, after a general election delivered another minority government as well as an unprecedented showing by populist party Chega (Enough) that added momentum to Europe’s shift to the far-right.