Former PSD leader defends “greater scrutiny of Justice”
Recent judicial shocks – not least the release of three suspects in the investigation into political corruption in Madeira – have seen former PSD leader Rui Rio ‘break cover’ today
Former Secretary of State absolved after being forced to resign over ‘suspicions’
“I am very happy”, were the words today of Miguel Alves, former Secretary of State to prime minister António Costa, forced to resign last year over suspicions that he had
Madeira corruption? Investigations continue, insists PJ boss
Following yesterday’s ‘bombshell’ in the saga that has brought down the Madeiran government, PJ police chief Luís Neves insists the case is still active; it has not been archived –
PS billboards vandalised in Algarve
PS has condemned the acts as a crime against “political freedom” Portugal’s Socialist Party (PS) filed a criminal complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office after its campaign billboards in the
Latest polling shows voting intentions swing to right
Parties of the right show “significant increase, almost reaching 50%” With the country assailed by acrimonious political ‘debates’ every evening, the latest polling shows that voting intentions are swinging to
Portugal elections: parties’ programmes being presented thick and fast
PS Socialists due to present their electoral programme later today After commentators complained that televised election debates were too much theatre, and too little substance, Portugal’s political parties have been
“Mudança Segura” – the slogan of Aliança Democrática’s electoral programme
“Mudança Segura”, meaning Safe/ Secure Change is the slogan chosen by the centre-right AD (Aliança Democrática) for its electoral programme, presented this afternoon in Alcântara, Lisbon. PSD leader Luís Montenegro
Commentator laments political parties ‘haven’t published their electoral programmes’
SIC Notícias political commentator Luís Delgado has stated the obvious today, stressing the televised debates that have begun between party leaders would be so much better if they had all
Tough break for PAN parliamentary leader
Inês Sousa Real has been through the mill this week: a blistering television debate with CHEGA leader André Ventura (where both talked over each other incessantly); a pasting in the
PAN party has ‘lost its backbone’, says former leader
André Silva has directed harsh criticism at the party Portugal’s former People-Animals-Nature Party (PAN) leader André Silva has announced his disaffiliation from the party, claiming that it has “lost its