Sócrates faces coalitions after losing his majority
By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@mmspublishing.com José Sócrates’ ruling Socialist Party won the General Election on Sunday but lost its overall majority in the Portuguese parliament. Calling it an “extraordinary election victory”,
Charles Smith denies having paid Sócrates
By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@algarveresident.com British businessman Charles Smith allegedly told British police investigating the Freeport Case that he never paid backhanders to José Sócrates in 2002 in return for planning
José Sócrates to sue over Freeport accusations
By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@algarveresident.com Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates is to sue any organisation or person that has implicated his name in the Freeport scandal. His intention came in a
Sócrates will go down as the prime minister of recession
THE OPPOSITION PSD party believes that José Sócrates will go down in history as the Prime Minister of the government that led Portugal into recession. However, the Prime Minister counter
Sócrates ‘the face of noble Europe’
By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com MAVERICK VENEZUELAN leader Hugo Chávez made a whistle-stop visit to Lisbon last week on the same day he allegedly threatened to invite the Russians to set
Cavaco and Sócrates at loggerheads over public works project
THE PRESIDENT of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, has said that the government needs to rethink its policies for large-scale public works projects such as the high speed TGV rail link.