Nuno Cardoso became mayor in 1999 by substitution, ran the European Capital of Culture year and the metro construction, and was dropped by his party before he could face a ballot. He came back as an independent twice, taking 1 percent in 2013 and 1.9 percent last October.
The firing range that becomes the Aeroporto Luis de Camoes lies mostly inside Benavente, not Alcochete. The council has zoned a business park there, projects more than 100 million euros of turnover per mandate, and set a clause returning the land to farmland if nothing is built by 2028.
The interim order that stopped the diggers has held since October. Hearings open on Wednesday at the Sintra administrative court, with three more sittings booked. Parliament recommended protecting this land in June 2021, and successive governments left the recommendation on the shelf.
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Eurostat's third estimate of the second quarter puts Portuguese employment up 1.0 percent on the quarter, the best in the EU, and 2.2 percent on the year, third behind Malta and Spain. The catch is that the workforce grew faster than output did.
IGAS opened process 104/2026-INS on 27 August, after a submission about how care is organised for women seeking a termination in Almada and Seixal. The hospital shut its information email the day it closed the clinic, and did not answer questions about where patients should go.
The ASAE inspected 30,700 economic operators in eight months, 8,600 of them online, and opened 643 criminal and 2,148 administrative proceedings. Operation Mesa Limpa alone closed 183 restaurants on the spot and seized four tonnes of food.
