“Mudança Segura” – the slogan of Aliança Democrática’s electoral programme
“Mudança Segura”, meaning Safe/ Secure Change is the slogan chosen by the centre-right AD (Aliança Democrática) for its electoral programme, presented this afternoon in Alcântara, Lisbon. PSD leader Luís Montenegro
Commentator laments political parties ‘haven’t published their electoral programmes’
SIC Notícias political commentator Luís Delgado has stated the obvious today, stressing the televised debates that have begun between party leaders would be so much better if they had all
Tough break for PAN parliamentary leader
Inês Sousa Real has been through the mill this week: a blistering television debate with CHEGA leader André Ventura (where both talked over each other incessantly); a pasting in the
PAN party has ‘lost its backbone’, says former leader
André Silva has directed harsh criticism at the party Portugal’s former People-Animals-Nature Party (PAN) leader André Silva has announced his disaffiliation from the party, claiming that it has “lost its
Madeira’s parliamentary parties to be heard by representative of Republic
With the exoneration of Madeira’s former regional governor now formally enacted, Ireneu Barreto, the representative of the Republic in Madeira, will receive the various parliamentary parties in order to decide
Resignation of Madeira’s regional governor “formally accepted” and almost instantly enacted
Miguel Albuquerque is officially no longer regional governor of Madeira. With fellow defendants in the corruption investigation that has rocked the regional government still in preventive custody – their judicial
Portugal’s elections: televised debates begin today
Head-to-heads between PS/ IL and CHEGA/ PAN With no concise online information on the electoral programmes of political parties fighting Portugal’s legislative elections (in less than five weeks time), televised
Madeira trio suspected of corruption ‘still in preventive custody’
With the future of the PSD government of Madeira still undecided, the situation of the three official suspects arrested over a week ago remains a point of major controversy. Former
Election poll latest: CHEGA gains, PS Socialists and AD alliance ‘stagnant’
Portugal’s right widens advantage over left Following two months of what are dubbed ‘the pre-election campaign’, only CHEGA – Portugal’s third political force, universally ‘reviled’ as ‘extreme right’ by those
Anti-corruption campaigner Ana Gomes ‘absolved of defamation’
Gomes described media mogul as “notorious scumbag/ tax criminal” Anti-corruption campaigner, former MEP and one-time presidential candidate Ana Gomes has been acquitted today in the 3rd defamation case brought against