Outgoing PM to meet EU labour/ internal market commissioners
Portugal’s outgoing prime minister, António Costa, will be received next Wednesday in Brussels by the European Commissioners for Employment and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, and for the Internal Market, Thierry
LIVRE “still believes in left wing government”
Party with 4 MPs holds out for results of emigré constituencies LIVRE – the upwardly moving left-wing party that quadrupled its representation in parliament in Sunday’s legislative elections – is
PCP Communists reject centre-right government programme
Paulo Raimundo, secretary-general of Portugal’s Communist Party (which was reduced to 4 MPs in Sunday’s elections) has announced that his party will be presenting a motion to reject AD’s government
Winning tactics: how Luís Montenegro plans to lead Portugal’s new government
Start big, with populist measures almost impossible to disagree with With Portugal’s left-wing parties already trying to construct an alternative to the AD centre right alliance voted into power last
Left wingers lead call to “construct alternative” to election result
Post-election ‘strategising’ led by Bloco de Esquerda With Portugal’s left in uproar over the election results last Sunday, the strategising has begun – very much as happened in Spain last
Portugal voted for “change” and faces new political imbroglio
AD centre-right alliance in unconvincing win, overshadowed by rise of populist CHEGA For once, the pre-election polls were all spot on: Portugal voted for change – after eight years of
CHEGA’s Algarve win attributed to “voter frustration”
Voters in the Algarve are “tired of unfulfilled promises” CHEGA’s victory in the Algarve in last weekend’s legislative elections is being attributed to growing frustration with how successive governments have “forgotten”
“Huge increase” in number of Portugal’s emigré voters
Emigrés in Europe, US, Africa, Asia Oceania all want a say in Portugal’s future Votes received from Portuguese emigrés have increased by almost two-thirds compared to the 2022 legislative elections,
Portugal suffers hung parliament in elections that see a surge in far-right populist party Chega
Political commentator Luís Marques Mendes predicted fresh elections early next year A 40-year political system in Portugal dominated by two main parties — the centre-right PSD and Socialist PS – may
Marcelo to begin audiences with political parties tomorrow
Talks to continue for at least a week As a result of last night’s election results, President Marcelo will begin hearing the various parties with seats in parliament from tomorrow.