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PCP to table a €50 permanent monthly pension increase from 1 July, structured as a base-line uplift rather than a one-off bonus. Montenegro says 'é cedo'. Annualised cost around €2.5-2.6 billion against a Programa de Estabilidade just revised down to a null surplus.
DCIAP, the Ministério Público's top investigative unit, has lost 12 of 44 prosecutors in under three years. An inspection finds one in five did not meet basic qualification requirements and that justice-officer staffing is 'manifestly insufficient' in five of seven sections.
President António José Seguro has placed healthcare 'a tempo e horas' at the top of his mandate. The Strategic Pact for Health, coordinated by former Health Minister Adalberto Campos Fernandes, begins work on Monday 5 May with a one-year horizon to build cross-party consensus on SNS reform.
The Ministry of Health says it cannot move on assisted-dying regulation without 'segurança jurídica' after the Constitutional Court's Acórdão 307/2025 struck down core provisions of Law 22/2023. The number of Portuguese registered with Switzerland's Dignitas has now reached 80.
Chega tables a comissão parlamentar de inquérito to the Operação Influencer on Monday 5 May. Ventura wants ex-PM Costa and his ministers summoned after a new PJ wiretap of a Christmas Eve 2022 call on the Sines data centre. Chega's 60 seats clear the one-fifth potestative threshold.
STTS has called a 48-hour national health-sector strike for Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 May 2026, with a Hospital Santa Maria demonstration on the second day. The arbitration tribunal has imposed Sunday-equivalent minimum services. SEP nurses already have 12 May queued.
Wednesday's Concertação Social meets after CGTP's general-strike call and before Parliament's mid-July recess — three deadlines, three blocs, and a Government with no obvious centre line. End-of-day analysis on why the calendar matters more than the strike.
