Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has appointed the conservative politician Luís Montenegro as the new prime minister, 11 days after parliamentary elections were held. The President’s Office in Lisbon announced the appointment on Thursday. Montenegro’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) received the most votes in the election and narrowly outperformed the Socialists, who had been in power for eight years. After counting almost all the votes, including those from abroad, the conservatives only won around a third of the 230 seats in parliament. The big winner of the election was An…