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Vítor Teixeira has scheduled a meeting for Friday, March 28. Sócrates will be represented by Pedro Delille, the lawyer who resigned from the main case.
José Sócrates has been without a lawyer for the last few months. Yet yesterday, he had not one, not two, but three lawyers. And is Bruno Mascarenhas a tough nut for Chega to crack?
The trial session was interrupted.
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At 4pm, lawyer José Preto has resigned from the defence of José Sócrates.
At 2pm, José Sócrates is again without legal representation.
José Preto will replace lawyer Pedro Delille at the end of November 2025; Delille had represented José Sócrates since his arrest in November 2014.
José Preto resigned on Tuesday. In November, Pedro Delille, then José Sócrates's lawyer, also resigned his mandate to represent the former prime minister.
The former prime minister asks the court for a further 20 days to choose a new defence lawyer.
In the Operation Marquês case, the lawyer representing José Sócrates has been discharged from hospital, but it is unclear whether they will be able to attend the court hearing scheduled for 13 January.
He had previously presented himself as a presidential pre-candidate with the slogan 'I'll only give up if I'm elected', but in the newspaper BLITZ he took on the role of political commentator to discuss the legislative elections that resulted in José Sócrates's victory. We recall the measures and suggestions of the leader of Ena Pá 2000 from 21 years ago.
After the first court-appointed lawyer refused on grounds of “conscientious objection”, the second also requested to be recused.
The court-appointed lawyer tasked with representing José Sócrates, after the official lawyer José Louro was hospitalised, resigned from the role on Tuesday morning. Inês Louro said she is a member of the Chega party and has been elected as a councillor in Azambuja.
