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The DR published Friday's RJUE decree on 30 May, recasting comunicação prévia and ending câmara formal-verification, while today's 1 June RGEU sunset hands the technical-rule layer to the new Código da Construção. The biggest single procedural housing reset since 1951.
Ministério Público on Saturday asked the Porto TIC to impose preventive detention on four of the 14 Operação Águas Turvas suspects at Águas de Gaia, the Vila Nova de Gaia municipal utility — alleged €8 million corruption scheme across procurement contracts, 17-month PJ investigation.
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.
Friday 29 May's Conselho de Ministros wrapped three consumer-facing decrees into one sitting: a complementary Diretiva 2020/2184 water-quality transposition, a cross-modal passenger-rights statute and the merger of the DGC into the new Direção-Geral da Defesa do Consumidor (DGDCCS).
Luís Montenegro ran unopposed in Saturday's PSD diretas for a third two-year mandate as party president, with roughly 57,000 militantes eligible to vote. The 43rd Congresso Nacional is set for 20-21 June in Anadia, locking in the Comissão Política Nacional and the third Moção de Estratégia.
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.
Two years on, the Plano de Emergência da Saúde closes around 60% of 54 measures. OncoStop waiting lists rebuild, family-doctor coverage misses its target, and the independent monitoring group has not met for roughly a year — the impact reads thinner than the score.
