Chega forced a 25-member inquiry into the interior minister's eight years running the Judicial Police. Its leader will chair it, and under the inquiries law his party's evidence requests cannot be voted down.
Chega's bill would remove the 0.5 percent charge banks can levy on early repayments, which returned in January after a three-year suspension. It passed at first reading and still faces committee and a final vote.
Parliament has backed compulsory helmets for e-scooter and e-bike riders at first reading. The PSD bill, with €30 to €150 fines and a night-time reflective-clothing rule, now goes to committee before a final vote.
Assisted reproduction accounted for 4.9 percent of births in 2024, the national council says, 20 years after the law that governs it. Public centres carry out few donor treatments, and about 1,000 IVF cycles a year are for people living abroad.
Government Bill 103 seeks a 180-day authorisation to amend the NRAU. The annexed draft decree ends the cap on starting rents, allows three months of rent in advance and any deposit, and speeds up evictions. DECO and the PS object.
PSD and CDS-PP have retabled their change to the Health Framework Law. Foreigners here regularly remain covered; non-residents and people here irregularly would pay or prove cover, except for emergency and life-saving care.
Fernando Alexandre told parliament that 335 of about 52,000 classes have 30 pupils and 124 have more. Late enrolments keep arriving, and he confirmed he scrapped the regional planning meetings the Socialists say would have prevented it.
