Portugal will go to the election? Center -right row minority Luisa Montenegro He did not receive a vote of confidence from parliament. Now everything looks like it will have to be carried out parliamentary elections – third in three years. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa must decide whether to announce them. According to analysts, it will do it, although not much will change – the polls indicate a slight change in voters' preferences in relation to March 2024, when the previous elections took place.
What happened in Portugal? The reason for the collapse of the government of Luis Montenegro are the allegations that the opposition made to the prime minister. Had use a position to support your own consulting company (now her sons lead her). Montenegro repelled these allegations. “The insinuation that I mixed business with political activities is completely insulting and even offensive. The repeated lie does not become true, but pollutes the political environment … This is fed by populism,” he said prime minister in parliament before voting. It did not help, the vote of trust was rejected by the ratio of votes 142 to 88.
Montenegro fought, it did nothing: Luis Montenegro gave the reporters after voting that he tried to convince opposition socialists to abstain from voting (ultimately no MPs abstained). He also reported that he proposed that will stand before the parliamentary commission, which would investigate his company. Earlier he rejected this option. However, he wanted work The committees lasted a maximum of two months, and the socialists did not agree to such a limit.
Sources: IAR, Reuters.