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The President of the Republic requested authorisation from Parliament to travel to the Spanish capital on the 19th and 20th of April. This will be the new Portuguese head of state's first official trip abroad.
This ceremony, part of the start of President António José Seguro's term, reaffirms the institutional bond between the Portuguese Armed Forces and the Head of State.
António José Seguro entered the Belém Palace accompanied by his family. The new President of the Republic then received the various heads of state who attended the inauguration.
António José Seguro has updated the social media platforms where he already had a presence, namely Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, now presenting himself as 'President of the Portuguese Republic'. The accounts that the new head of state will use are the same ones he used during the election campaign. Photographs of this Monday's inauguration have already been published on these networks.
The new President of the Republic took the oath on the Constitution, gave his first speech as Head of State, and paid tribute to Camões. In the afternoon, he will decorate his predecessor, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Lunches and dinners with staff and constitutional bodies
The head of state voted early because it would be 'complicated' to go to the polls on 18 January due to the visit of his Estonian counterpart to Portugal.
The Head of State, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, registered to vote in advance for the presidential election on Sunday, to “draw attention to this option that allows greater flexibility”, the Presidency of the Republic said on Tuesday. According to the Presidency of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa “registered to vote in advance on Sunday, the 11th, ...”
Both Leonor Beleza, vice-president of the PSD, and Durval Tiago Ferreira, vice-president and spokesperson of the CDS, stressed that this was Marcelo's final message as Head of State.
