Parliament approved a bill creating the Single Social Benefit (Prestacao Social Unica), merging non-contributory subsidies and unlocking a request for €620 million in EU recovery funds.
Parliament rejected a clutch of bills that would have set Portugal on the road to elected administrative regions, with PSD, CDS-PP and Chega voting down proposals from the PCP, PS, Livre and JPP.
The leader of the Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) on 22 June 2026 accused the President of the Assembleia da República (Assembly of the Republic) of engineering a procedural manoeuvre that, in his telling, hands an advantage to two rival parties on...
The Ministry of Labour has dropped the Código das Prestações Sociais from the PRR's Social Security milestone, leaving the Prestação Social Única as the sole gate to the €5.193 billion final tranche — Palma Ramalho cited a 63-month RSI duration before parliament on Friday.
Chega joined the entire left bench to reject the Trabalho XXI labour reform in Friday's generalidade vote, defeating Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's flagship Código do Trabalho rewrite. Only PSD, CDS-PP and IL voted in favour.
The Portuguese government walked into the 19 June 2026 plenary debate on the Trabalho XXI (Labour XXI) reform of the Código do Trabalho (Labour Code) treating Saturday's floor vote as already won. Hugo Soares, leader of the parliamentary bench of...
Interior Minister Luís Neves told Parliament on 17 June the PSP reorganisation under review in Lisbon, Porto and Setúbal redeploys ~500 agents to street patrol — no super-esquadras — and 360 extra officers reinforce airports from 3 July as the Rato torture probe accelerates the closure roadmap.
