Portimão mayor confirmed as candidate for EU Parliament
Isilda Gomes is seventh on the PS list of candidates Isilda Gomes, mayor of Portimão since 2013, is part of the Socialist Party’s (PS) list of candidates for the upcoming
Case that brought down absolute majority government “could be declared null and void”
Evidence gathering in Operation Influencer at issue Right from the start critics howled “political coup” – and today stories emerging add weight to the theory that, at the very least,
Public prosecutor asks political immunity lifted on three PSD MPs
‘Tutti Frutti’ investigation inches forwards The Public Prosecutor’s Office has requested that the immunity of PSD MPs Luís Newton, Carlos Eduardo Reis and Margarida Saavedra be lifted in the Tutti
Left wingers rally to “stop backward steps by the Right”
Meetings organised by left-wingers Bloco de Esquerda – designed to ‘unite the left against the right’ – have been continuing, with Bloco coordinator Mariana Mortágua saying today that the left
AD changes name for European elections
After the confusion during the March 10 legislative elections between AD and ADN (a tiny political party that miraculously gained an enormous number of votes last month), Portugal’s government has
CHEGA latches on to “immoral severance payment” for new Secretary of State
Cristina Pinto Dias received €80,000 from CP to go into another (highly paid) public role Correio da Manhã tabloid is setting a record for ‘exposing’ what it sees as political
Justice minister starts meetings with parties on tackling corruption
PM wants “ambitious, effective, consensual agenda” within two months Portugal’s Minister of Justice, Rita Júdice, is meeting separately with MPs from PSD, PS and CHEGA in parliament today, kicking off
“Enormous pressure on Justice to clear former PM’s name”
Following yesterday’s new bombshell, delivered by appeal court judges in Lisbon to the investigation that directly led to the political situation in which Portugal is in today, political leaders of
Second ‘casualty’ in Portugal’s new government
Advisor to justice minister brought down by social media history Social media posts have seen to it that a second nomination to Portugal’s centre right government has fallen by the
Parliamentary president issues slew of new ‘rules’
José Aguiar Branco, the new president of Portugal’s parliament, has wasted no time in bringing in a number of new rules. The ‘switching off’ of microphones of MPs who speak