The Portuguese Parliament rejected this Tuesday the motion of no confidence from the far-right Chega with 104 votes against, 60 in favor, and 62 abstentions, including the decisive ones from the socialist deputies who, for the sake of stability, thus saved the government of conservative Luís Montenegro. However, the most revealing figure of a debate whose outcome was clear from the very presentation of the motion was not generated by parliamentary arithmetic, but by political dynamics. It concerns the maximum amount of the additional extra payment of 1,611.13 euros that Portuguese pensioners will receive in December. It is part, along with tax reductions for the lowest incomes, of the package of measures announced by a besieged Montenegro, in response to the scandals that have his Interior Minister, Luís Neves, on the ropes, and the growing social unrest due to a much higher fuel cost than in Spain, with more than 30 cents difference on both sides of the border.