Portugal’s parliament elected conservative MP José Pedro Aguiar-Branco as its new president on Wednesday. The politician from the conservative alliance Democratic Alliance (AD) was voted in by 160 of the 230 members of the parliament in Lisbon, the Assembleia da República said. Four deputies from other parties were also elected. The election of Aguiar-Branco only became possible after the opposition socialist party PS gave up its resistance to the conservative. Aguiar-Branco had failed in his first attempt the previous day and only received 88 votes. The AD had received the most votes in the e…