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The list of Spinumviva clients has been made available on the Transparency Entity platform, though it contains no new information beyond what was previously disclosed by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro.
Portugal has been experiencing a continuous decline in its Transparency International index ranking since 2015, now positioned 46th out of 180 countries in 2025. This marks a drop of three places from 2024 and twelve places from 2023, highlighting ongoing challenges in preventing corruption in public office.
Five PS councillors wanted all the municipality's ordinary meetings to be opened to public participation and streamed live on the council's digital platforms.
Five Socialist Party (PS) councillors wanted all municipal executive meetings to be open to public participation and livestreamed on the council's digital platforms.
The head-to-head was marked by an exchange of accusations over transparency, or the lack of it.
