Portugal reboots
Sunday’s snap election brings new set of problems, but PM survives Sunday’s snap election has delivered Portugal a whole new set of problems. The AD (PSD/CDS-PP) coalition may have ‘won’
No guarantees that Portugal won’t suffer another electricity blackout
Minister of Environment and Energy address conference on electricity security Acting minister for environment and energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, has told a conference in Lisbon that there are no
Ventura leaves Belém already talking of becoming “alternative to government”
CHEGA leader promotes himself to Leader of Portugal’s Opposition CHEGA leader André Ventura, miraculously recovered from his debilitating attacks combining acid reflux with high blood pressure, left his party’s post-election
“Danger to democracy” warning as ‘race’ for presidency gets underway
Candidate Luís Marques Mendes lays into rival for post, former Navy chief With one election done (albeit far from dusted), Portugal is being launched into a new election race –
“Rigorous new frontier controls” leave hundreds fuming in Lisbon
Passengers from outside Europe forced to queue for hours today The ‘arrivals’ misery’ for airport passengers from outside Europe is no longer limited to Faro airport. It is a new
Prosecutors office still waiting for “additional information” on PM’s family firm
Spinumviva was the reason for Portugal’s snap elections The Attorney General’s Office has confirmed today that prosecutors have requested additional information from ‘former prime minister Luís Montenegro’ as part of
Socialist leader withdraws from scene on Saturday
New leader unlikely to be chosen before results of municipal elections late summer Socialist leader Pedro Nuno Santos, the man under whose watch Portugal’s PS party has lost roughly a
President enacts law on strategic natural gas reserve
Establishes measures to “guarantee security of supply” Less than a month after the Iberian Blackout that saw the country starved of electricity for practically 12-hours, president Marcelo has enacted legislation
President to start hearing parties on Tuesday about forming government
Brussels meantimes has rather different view of government’s projections President Marcelo will begin hearing Portugal’s new-look political parties tomorrow, with hearings starting with the PSD at 11am, and going in
PS/ CHEGA tie likely to be broken when emigré votes are counted
Votes will be counted on May 28 The current PS/ CHEGA tie (of 58 MPs apiece) could well be broken when the count of emigré votes is completed on May