That is indeed a valid possibility and one I wouldn't put pass the current assholes in government as over the years in Portugal too politics has become a lot more that kind of sleazy and manipulative purposeful theater and misrepresentation.

Unlike in Spain were the leftmost party of the two major ones (I wouldn't say that in the present day after 4 decades of Neoliberalism they are for sure left of center, but they're definitely to the left of the other one), in Portugal it's the rightmost one that's in power and they have a long tradition of being "Atlanticist" (i.e. of kissing American ass, a lot, the full works with tongue included) plus from my experience living in several countries in Europe, Portuguese politicians are the country bumpkings of European politicians and pretty subservient to and easily awed by big countries, so bending over to countries like America and Germany is their natural behavior.