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CNE

Conselho Nacional de Educação Walks the Government's Higher-Education Access Rewind Into a 'Consequências Gravosas' Parecer — CNE Unanimously Asks Fernando Alexandre to Repensar the One-Exam-Minimum Proposal That Reverses the 2023 Two-Exam Rule

The Conselho Nacional de Educação — the Republic's consultative body on every diploma the Ministry of Education and Higher Education tries to move through the system — has dropped a unanimous parecer onto the desk of Minister Fernando Alexandre...

Politics

Comissão Nacional de Eleições Slips Into a Quorum Crisis — Five Members From the Government, PSD and CDS-PP Suspend Plenary Participation, Accusing President Trindade of Withholding Financial Information, as Both Sides Now Demand Tribunal de Contas Audits

The Comissão Nacional de Eleições — the constitutional body that oversees Portuguese elections — has slipped into the most serious internal crisis since its 1971 establishment. Five members representing the Government, PSD and CDS-PP have suspended...