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PS leader Pedro Nuno Carneiro rejects an inquiry commission into the Lajes base, instead demanding parliamentary explanations from Minister Rangel, whom he criticizes for displaying nervousness regarding US diplomatic statements.
Chega leader André Ventura has announced plans to launch a parliamentary commission of inquiry into 'Operation Influencer', aiming to investigate alleged corruption and potential dishonesty by former Prime Minister António Costa, regardless of support from other political parties.
CNN Portugal commentator Luís Rosa argues that former Prime Minister José Sócrates' attempts to stall his trial undermine public trust in democracy, while Minister Leitão Amaro emphasizes the need to protect media independence from political interference.
Do the new names elected to the Constitutional Court and the entry of a profile nominated by the far-right call the regime into question or guarantee pluralism? Also, with the PSU receiving social benefits, it now requires work.
The Prime Minister submitted two appeals for the assessment of legal issues raised by the Transparency Entity.
Greg Bovino attended the Remigration Summit held in Portugal as an unexpected guest.
Socialist João Soares feels offended by the Judicial Police searches at the Socialist Party headquarters. He considers them to have been excessive.
Instead of wanting to turn the Portuguese into angels, I propose we start from the principle that they will never have wings. Opinion by João Miguel Tavares
The Socialist leader said he had no information regarding the arrest of his advisor, Duarte Moral, and also mentioned he had not spoken to those targeted in the investigation.
Searches at the PS, suspicious contracts, and names close to José Luís Carneiro at the centre of the PJ operation. Analysis with Luís Rosa.
The Judiciary Police arrested Duarte Moral and four others in a case involving over 30 defendants, which revealed an alleged web of interests within the Socialist Party (PS). The investigation concerns suspicions of favouritism. A former advisor to António Costa was active in the field of consultancy for Socialist mayors.
Luis Montenegro declined to comment on the case regarding the searches at the PS headquarters. The Prime Minister only stated that the institutions are functioning.
Carneiro clarifies that the Socialist Party is not a subject of the ongoing investigation.
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro stated this Thursday that 'Operation Imergente', which targets PS-led municipal councils and parish councils and led to searches at the party's headquarters, is a sign that institutions are 'functioning'. “Institutions are functioning and that is how it must be,” the Prime Minister reacted upon arriving at the 'Conversations' initiative.
With alarm bells over ‘the old boy net at work in Portuguese politics’ already tolling noisily this week, PJ police have now launched a ‘mega-operation’ into an alleged ‘network’ operating The post PJ launches megaoperation into suspicions of corruption within PS Socialist Party appeared first on Portugal Resident.
More than a hundred inspectors from the National Anti-Corruption Unit are in the field, and there may be arrests by the end of the day.
Former Prime Minister José Sócrates asserted this Thursday, at the start of the trial for the lawsuit he filed in 2017 against the State, that the accusations he faced in the public square during Operation Marquês caused him “enormous suffering”. “Between 2015 and 2017, I was the target of an extraordinary campaign, unique in our country, which presented me...
The exit follows a disagreement over quotas set by the organization. Also in this news bulletin, Costa does not comment on new wiretaps revealed in Operation Influencer.
The long running criminal case involving former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates seems to be falling apart at the seams. Tabloid Correio da Manhã explains today that “the crimes of The post Former PM’s corruption case starts ‘really falling apart’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.
António Costa, the former socialist prime minister who in November 2023 guaranteed that his friend Diogo Lacerda Machado had 'never, under any circumstances' spoken to him about the Start Campus project in Sines, now sees that statement contradicted by a wiretap released by TVI and CNN Portugal. In that recording, made on Christmas Eve...
The Entity for Transparency (EpT) only completed the verification of 10.2% of the declarations submitted by Portuguese politicians by the end of 2025, reports the newspaper Público in today's edition. According to the EpT's activity report for last year, the independent body reviewed and audited 883 declarations up to 31...
Nine years later, the Lisbon Administrative Court will judge the lawsuit that José Sócrates filed against the Portuguese State in 2017 regarding Operation Marquês, the former prime minister announced this Monday. In a statement, the head of government between 2005 and 2011 reveals that the trial is scheduled for May 14 and 15.
Morning briefing on international affairs, highlighting the contrast between US diplomatic optimism and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The smaller part of Operation Marquês is set to go to trial. The charges involve document forgery and money laundering.
The show “Sr. Engenheiro” condenses the life of José Sócrates into 90 minutes, from his birth in the Beiras to his trial, “from appeal to appeal until the final statute of limitations,” exaggerating facts and transforming them into a comic and musical satire of Portuguese identity.
The CMTV commentator says that one of the points André Ventura insists on during his political campaign is the Roma community.
The PS has no room for its supremacist war at the Constitutional Court.
The recordings of the interrogations conducted after his arrest in November 2014 and May 2015 were played at the Operation Marquês trial. Why? To produce evidence.
