Chega has tied its Prestação Social Única vote to a carve-out limiting immigrant access to the new single benefit, leaving the Government's PRR-funded reform €620 million short of its August deadline unless PS continues to abstain through the ten-day specialidade debate.
Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa annulled the July 2025 acquittal of Cristina Rodrigues — now Chega, ex-PAN — over the 2020 PAN email-deletion case. The 4 June 2026 acórdão ruled the first-instance judgment insufficiently reasoned and ordered a retrial alongside co-defendant Sara Fernandes.
PJ's Operação Imergente lands on PS-linked câmaras and juntas, detains adviser Duarte Moral, wife Rute Reimão and an ex-PS Oeiras president, with 37 arguidos and €2 million in flagged ajustes diretos under scrutiny.
PSD, PS and Chega filed a joint four-judge list for the Tribunal Constitucional on Saturday 30 May ahead of the 12 June plenary vote. Joaquim Cardoso da Costa, Paula Ribeiro Faria, Gabriela Cunha Rodrigues and Luís Filipe Brites Lameiras — Chega's first seat on the court.
Chega leader André Ventura called Luís Montenegro's public rejection of his party's vacation-days, overtime-rights and retirement-age demands a 'caricatural strategy' at a Sunday 24 May Lisbon HQ press conference — the labour-reform vote arithmetic depends on PS or Chega backing, neither in place.
Luís Montenegro closed the 29th JSD Congress in Viseu on Sunday 24 May by ruling out a pension floor pegged to the €920 minimum wage and any reduction of the 66-and-9-months retirement age. João Pedro Luís, 24, took the JSD presidency with 58%.
The Socialist Party (PS) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) closed ranks against a Chega motion to declassify the surviving Forças Populares 25 de Abril (FP-25) files and the parallel archive on the post-25 April far-right bombing networks, with...
