The European Commission has declined to comment on the Portuguese parliamentary elections, but has made it clear that the Plan for Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) must be implemented by 2026, no matter how many elections Portugal has. The EU executive’s chief spokesman Eric Mamer told the institution’s daily press conference in brussels today, “there will always be the possibility of planned or unplanned elections in a country” but “the plan exists, it has been decided, and it is obviously up to the national authorities, wherever or whoever they are, to implement the plan as agreed – this is exactly what is happening in other member states as well and we are confident that this will be the case in Portugal”.
