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The Instituto Nacional de Estatística timed its release for the 52nd anniversary of 25 de Abril and answered a question Portuguese politics has argued about for decades: how much has the country stopped voting since the revolution? The answer, in...
The Sindicato dos Magistrados do Ministério Público called a national strike for 24 April and got the kind of turnout that bends the judicial calendar. By the union's own count, adhesion ran between 75% and 80% across the country, with the...
On Wednesday, 29 April 2026, Portugal marks 200 years since Dom Pedro IV — the same Pedro who was at that moment Emperor of Brazil — signed a charter that would govern the country, on and off, for the next seven decades. The Carta Constitucional de...
Álvaro Santos Pereira, the Portuguese economist who took the keys at Banco de Portugal on 6 October 2025, walked into a code-of-conduct collision within weeks of arriving. Público reports today that in December 2025 — barely two months into his...
Paulo Fernandes says €2bn of the €3.5bn aid envelope has reached the ground — but housing has paid 3,000 of 36,000 applications, agriculture is at €3.3M of a €10M dotation, and fishing has paid 56 of 1,268 files.
Brazil's TSE has set 6 May 2026 as the cut-off for Brazilians abroad to regularise their electoral file before October's presidential election. Lisbon hosts Europe's largest Brazilian electoral college (45,273 voters in 2022). No quitação eleitoral, no passport renewal.
On 25 April the Tribunal Constitucional annulled Daniel Adrião's expulsion from the PS as illegal. The former leadership candidate asked José Luís Carneiro for readmission and a public apology — setting a precedent for autárquica-related disciplinary cases.
