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PS Aligns With PSD to Kill Chega's Constitutional Revision Push on Tuesday 12 May — Socialist Secretariado Nacional Says the Portuguese 'Do Not Ask for a Constitutional Revision' Inside the 30-Day Counter-Project Window

PS Aligns With PSD to Kill Chega's Constitutional Revision Push on Tuesday 12 May — Socialist Secretariado Nacional Says the Portuguese 'Do Not Ask for a Constitutional Revision' Inside the 30-Day Counter-Project Window

Tuesday 12 May 2026: the PS Secretariado Nacional formally rules out tabling a constitutional revision project. PSD's António Rodrigues told TSF the party will block Chega's proposals. Without either, the 154-vote two-thirds threshold under Article 286 is mathematically out of reach.
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Seguro Promulgates the Pacote Fiscal Habitação on Monday Evening 12 May — IVA on Moderate-Price Construction Drops to 6%, IRS on Moderate Rents Falls From 25% to 10% Through 2029, Non-Resident IMT on Habitação Locks Fixed at 7.5% Without Isenções

Seguro Promulgates the Pacote Fiscal Habitação on Monday Evening 12 May — IVA on Moderate-Price Construction Drops to 6%, IRS on Moderate Rents Falls From 25% to 10% Through 2029, Non-Resident IMT on Habitação Locks Fixed at 7.5% Without Isenções

Monday evening 12 May: President Seguro promulgates the Pacote Fiscal Habitação — IVA on moderate-price construction drops to 6%, IRS on moderate rents falls 25%→10% through 2029, non-resident IMT locks fixed at 7.5%, tenant deduction rises to €900 in 2026 and €1,000 from 2027.
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Lusa Workers Walk a 24-Hour National Strike on Wednesday 20 May 2026 — SJ, SITESE and SITE CSRA Concentrate at São Bento as Parliament Debates the Estatuto Revision, the Move-to-RTP-Campus File and the Governmentalisation Risk

Lusa Workers Walk a 24-Hour National Strike on Wednesday 20 May 2026 — SJ, SITESE and SITE CSRA Concentrate at São Bento as Parliament Debates the Estatuto Revision, the Move-to-RTP-Campus File and the Governmentalisation Risk

Lusa workers approve a 24-hour national strike for Wednesday 20 May 2026 with a concentration at São Bento — timed to the parliamentary Estatuto-revision debate. SJ, SITESE and SITE CSRA flag governmentalisation risk and the possible relocation of Lusa's headquarters to the RTP campus.
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Tribunal de Contas Detects 49 Oeiras Directors Operating 'Without Legal Legitimacy' — Auditoria de Apuramento de Responsabilidades Financeiras Walks Into the Ministério Público, Seixal Adds Six Years of Direção em Substituição Across Two Mandates

Tribunal de Contas Detects 49 Oeiras Directors Operating 'Without Legal Legitimacy' — Auditoria de Apuramento de Responsabilidades Financeiras Walks Into the Ministério Público, Seixal Adds Six Years of Direção em Substituição Across Two Mandates

TdC's Auditorias de Apuramento de Responsabilidades Financeiras land at the Ministério Público: 49 Oeiras directors held posts past the 90-day substituição cap, Seixal ran its leadership em substituição for six-plus years, and the financial-responsibility door is now open.
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Chega Formalises a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission Into Operação Influencer Targeting António Costa Over Lithium, Hydrogen and Start Campus — PSD Refuses, So the CPI Walks Into the September Forced-Activation Window

Chega Formalises a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission Into Operação Influencer Targeting António Costa Over Lithium, Hydrogen and Start Campus — PSD Refuses, So the CPI Walks Into the September Forced-Activation Window

Chega formalised on Saturday its parliamentary motion for a Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (CPI) into the Operação Influencer case — the wiretap-and-search investigation that brought down the Costa government in November 2023 and that the...
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Conselho de Ministros Approves Three SNS Doctor Decree-Laws on 7 May — Tarefeiro Contracts Made 'Excecional', Urgência Bonus Reaches 80.5% Above the 250-Hour Cap, INEM Reorganised as a Special-Regime Institute

Conselho de Ministros Approves Three SNS Doctor Decree-Laws on 7 May — Tarefeiro Contracts Made 'Excecional', Urgência Bonus Reaches 80.5% Above the 250-Hour Cap, INEM Reorganised as a Special-Regime Institute

The 7 May Council of Ministers approved a three-decree-law SNS package: prestação de serviços becomes excecional, the urgência bonus reaches up to 80.5% of base pay above the 250-hour annual cap in 48-hour blocks, and INEM is reorganised as a regime-especial institute.
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