PSD leader categorically sidelines right-wing ‘pretender-to-power’ CHEGA
PSD leader Rui Rio used his moment on the podium at the latest convention of MEL – the movement for Europe and Liberty – to ram home the message to
Wife of former prime minister Passos Coelho loses heroic cancer battle
Laura Ferreira, the wife of former PSD prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho has lost her heroic battle for life. Diagnosed with cancer five years ago, the physiotherapist by profession died
Petitions by teachers and pupils blight Passos Coelho’s new career
Before it has even started, former prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho’s new career as a university lecturer on public administration and economics has created a storm of protests. Pupils and
Sacking of regional development bosses “a total scandal”, says former PM
Following on from the political sackings of CCDR bosses in the Algarve and the North, former prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho has denounced the situation as “a total scandal”. In
Government on tenterhooks as President Cavaco delays resolution
More than a week after Portugal’s PSD/CDS-PP government was rejected in Parliament, the country is still hardly any closer to knowing what the next government will be or when it
Passos Coelho wants new elections as centre-right go on the attack
In the latest twist in the death-throes of the PSD-CDS coalition government, outgoing PM Pedro Passos Coelho is demanding new elections and the rapid constitutional rewrite that these would entail.
Passos names Portugal’s new government and vows it will last four years
In a surprise move on Tuesday, Portugal’s prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho put faces to the country’s new minority government, vowing it was be capable of lasting four years. His
Motions of censure promise to bring down Passos Coelho’s government
As the dust settles on the “many messages” in President Cavaco Silva’s speech last night, certain facts have become clear. Motions of censure are promised by all the left-wing parties,
Interior minister “shrugs and refuses to comment” after being “confronted” at GNR funeral
Already dubbed “the worst minister in living memory”, Anabela Rodrigues is back in hot water after being confronted at the funeral of the GNR agent, gunned down in Quinta do
Sócrates leaves jail to house arrest after 41 weeks behind bars
Following possibly the longest period of detention-without-charge of a former prime minister of a democratic country, José Sócrates was finally released from Évora jail last night to house-arrest in Lisbon,