António José Seguro’s initial measures foreground a dual focus on health and institutional accountability: a Health Pact aimed at ensuring timely, patient-centred care and policies to bolster Portugal’s strategic autonomy, alongside strengthened scrutiny of the Presidency and a commitment that the prosecutor and the justice system ‘do their job’. Analytically, these priorities signal an attempt to balance immediate public‑health delivery and patient safety with broader governance reforms that emphasise transparency, legal oversight and national policy resilience—moves that will shape public policy debate and affect both domestic and expatriate communities.