THE DECISION OF PORTUGAL TO LEAVE FROM THE TROIKA’S BAILOUT SCHEMA IN 2014

Eurozone countries has experienced financial crisis since the 2008, in
dealing with the debt crisis / economy in the Eurozone there are three institutions
that cooperate institutions, namely Troika there are the International Monetary
Fund, European Commission, and European Central Bank. Basically Troika is
monitoring countries in severe economic problems that are receiving financial
loans provided for by the EU and the IMF. And Portugal is one of the Eurozone
country that experience the debt/economic crisis after Greece and Irish, and
receive international assistance from Troika (EU-IMF). Portuguese government's
decision to ask for help and was negotiations on the bailout program of the troika,
Portugal receive financial assistance and must run the schema of the troika,
namely the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) .However for a little over four
years of implementation to the SAP program the government decidet to exit from
bailout program.
The purpose of this research was intended to find out the factors that
influence government decisions Portugal To exit the Troika schema. Portugal has
been running the bailout program since 2011-2014,on May 17, 2014 Portuguese
government declared out of the Troika bailout program and refused further
assistance. In this study, using the theory of Two-Level Games where a decisionmaking,
the government is faced with international pressure and domestic
pressure. International pressure has influence the policy of a country by providing
the assistance required by a country to impose terms. and domestic pressures
affect policy by pressing the authorities to satisfy their interests. This research
method by putting the Portuguese government in the engagement agreement and
involves domestic and on international level in making government decisions
portugal.