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Portugal’s economy minister has resigned after making an insulting gesture during a parliamentary debate, damaging the image of the Socialist government three months before a general election. Manuel Pinho held his two index fingers to his forehead, suggesting horns, the sign of a cuckold, during an exchange with a Communist deputy over miners’ jobs during a state-of-the-nation debate on Thursday. Mr Pinho’s fleeting gesture, made in a separate exchange while José Sócrates, the prime minister was addressing parliament, was shown repeatedly on television and featured prominently on the front pages of Portuguese newspapers on Friday. Insulting someone as a cuckold, a man with an adulterous wife, remains a powerful general insult in many Latin countries, although it has long fallen into disuse in Britain, where it known mainly... [read full story]
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