Gouveia e Melo, Marques Mendes and Ventura in technical tie for presidency
The dust hasn’t even settled on last night’s municipal elections, but focus is already shifting to the third and final election contest for 2025. This one – for the presidency
PSD ‘victory’ means party wins control of both national municipal associations
Last night’s local election results gave the ruling PSD another major boost: the party is now in control of both national municipal associations, ANAFRE – the association of parish councils
PSD and PS celebrate ‘brilliant night’ – both winning significant local trophies
Results for the October 12 municipal elections were very much ‘even stevens’ for ruling PSD and PS Socialists: each party can claim significant victories, and hold their heads way above
Algarve becomes political mosaic – with ‘earthquake’ in municipality of Aljezur
With results coming through all night, the municipal elections have brought some real surprises across the board – not least in the Algarve, where the ‘earthquake’ of the evening shook
Brits travelling to Portugal face new European border control system
From today (October 12) Brits travelling to and from Portugal (and 29 other European countries) face the new European border control system for non-EU citizens, designed to strengthen security and
Orcas sink yet another boat off coast of Portugal
Yet another sailing boat was sunk yesterday, around 90 kms southwest of Peniche, as a result of an ‘orca attack’. This time, three children were among the five crew members
“Vote, vote, vote – the use of European funds may depend on it!”
President Marcelo has stressed today that there are potentially more reasons to vote in Sunday’s municipal elections than normal With polling stations opening from 8am tomorrow, these are the elections
Marcelo welcomes choice for winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has welcomed the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, saying it was a “very wise” decision. “I
Algarve pressure group warns Portugal’s rush to decarbonise is sacrificing rural stability
Algarve environmental awareness group CARE has issued another warning, in the wake of new research (published by The Guardian and the Green to Grey) showing that every day Europe is
Portugal’s electricity grid “without capacity for all data centres planned”
Investors behind the eight (to date) data centres wth their sights on Portugal will require more electricity to run them than the maximum production available on the national grid. “If