Left Bloc elects new leader at 13th convention
Mariana Mortágua is the new face of a cycle of continuity in Portugal’s Left Bloc political party, following the 13th Convention over the weekend, taking up the fight against the
President to hear parties, top advisors on economy, politics in July
Intention is to take stock of legislative session, which ends in July Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has announced that in July he will hear all parties with seats
Wiretaps, compromising emails: heat on PS government intensifies
Operation Tutti-Frutti ‘returns with avengence’ Wednesday afternoon in parliament positively bristled with controversy following revelations the day before by TVI/ CNN Portugal alluding to a secret pact between PS Socialists
CHEGA asks PM to hand over minister’s comms to parliament
Portugal’s right wing party CHEGA has asked the prime minister and his deputy secretary of state, Mendonça Mendes, to hand over communications with minister of infrastructure João Galamba on the
Finance minister delivers “good economic news”
Hopes inflation will come down to 3% “for several months”; public debt to fall below Spain, France Portugal’s finance minister Fernando Medina has delivered some good economic news to the
Elite Bilderberg meeting in Lisbon
The chief organisers of the latest Bilderberg meeting will be circulating a report on it. Frustratingly, no one other than those affiliated with the group will see the report or
PM accuses Cavaco of “fuelling right wing frenzy”
Portugal’s prime minister António Costa has reacted to the brutal speech over the weekend by former president Cavaco Silva, accusing the octogenarian of fuelling the right wing’s “frenzy” to provoke
Inês Sousa Real re-elected as official PAN spokesperson
Inês de Sousa Real, the one and only MP representing PAN (People’s Animals Nature party) in parliament has won her bid to be re-elected as the party’s spokesperson, having clinched
Former Portuguese president puts boot into “disjointed, directionless” government
“Specialists in lying, propaganda and tricks” Portugal’s former president Aníbal Cavaco Silva has today accused the country’s absolute majority Socialist government of being experts in “lies and propaganda”, and leading
PAN to hold ninth party congress with leader, sole MP under attack
PAN ‘lost’ MPs under current leader Inês Sousa Real PAN, the People Animals Nature party that made such strides in the early days when it had just one MP in