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The Chega party has tabled a motion of no confidence against Oeiras Mayor Isaltino Morais following his indictment for the alleged misuse of 150,000 euros in public funds for personal expenses.
The Chega party has officially distanced itself from Lisbon councillor Bruno Mascarenhas following reports that his partner was renting clandestine housing to immigrants in poor conditions.
The Public Prosecutor's Office has archived the investigation into controversial campaign posters by Chega leader André Ventura, ruling that while the content may be subject to civil penalties, it does not constitute a criminal offense under the Penal Code, citing political freedom of expression.
Mafalda Guerra, a Chega activist, was dismissed following an RTP investigation that uncovered her properties being utilized as illegal housing for immigrants in Lisbon. The report raised significant concerns regarding the legality of the rentals and the implications for immigrant communities.
At 18:00, the Chega party lodged a formal complaint reporting incidents of shots fired using prohibited weapons in Lisbon.
The four members elected by Parliament were sworn in this Monday, following the end of the deadlock in the parliamentary election. Find out who they are and what the new occupants of the Ratton Palace think, where the judge nominated by Chega makes the difference for a majority of appointees from the right.
In Amadora, freedom comes at a high cost and the mayor is already a formal suspect for malfeasance. While the PS pretends not to see and the Government 'flirts' with Chega, the taxpayer pays for the luxury.
The gifts were deemed admissible by the General Secretariat of the Assembly of the Republic. An emigrant justified the presents for the Chega leader as a gesture of gratitude for his work on behalf of Portuguese communities.
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.
While the PS misses crucial votes, there is a debate over whether the PSU is slavery or integration. There was time left for the President to veto flags and for Ventura to play crusader with Photoshop and plenty of light.
After months of negotiations and failed votes, Parliament succeeded this Friday, June 12, in electing the four Constitutional Court judges nominated by the Assembly of the Republic. The four names result from a joint list agreed upon by the PSD, Chega, and PS, submitted to Parliament on May 29. The electoral process took place behind closed doors in the Senate Room and required a two-thirds majority, meaning at least 154 votes, for the election to succeed. Of the 207 voters, 176 approved the election, with 19 blank votes and 12 null votes. Elected to the Palácio Ratton were, proposed by the PSD, Joaquim Pedro Formigal Cardoso da Costa—current director of the State Legal Centre and former Secretary of State for Administrative Modernisation in 2013 under the Pedro Passos Coelho government—and Maria Paula Bonifácio Ribeiro de Faria. Chega nominated former appellate judge of the Lisbon and Porto Courts of Appeal, Luís Filipe Brites Lameiras. On behalf of the PS, Maria Gabriela Abrantes Leal da Cunha Rodrigues, an appellate judge currently serving as chief of staff to the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, was elected. In a separate election, Luísa Neto failed to secure the necessary votes for Ombudsman. Luísa Neto fails election for the position of Ombudsman; three largest parties submit a single list of candidates for the Constitutional Court.
The announcement comes one day after Parliament rejected an appeal filed by the PS regarding the decision of the President of the Assembly of the Republic concerning the Chega constitutional revision bill.
PSD, Chega, and CDS rejected the Socialist appeal. The Speaker of Parliament argues that his Socialist predecessor acted in the same way and that the PS never questioned him.
The PS contests José Pedro Aguiar-Branco's decision to 'freeze' Chega's constitutional revision project, creating an impasse over whether this decision can be appealed to the plenary of the Assembly of the Republic.
The Prime Minister and the president of Chega are meeting at São Bento, an encounter that Luis Montenegro's office only confirms as a “working meeting”. The meeting, which is taking place at the official residence in São Bento (Lisbon), was not on the Prime Minister's official agenda, who has a visit to the 62nd National Fair scheduled for 16:00.
The Chega leader considered it inconceivable, for example, that a President of the Republic, on June 10th, “does not speak about what happened with [former banker] Ricardo Salgado, who received a 13-year suspended sentence simply because he is Ricardo Salgado.”
Belém and São Bento are experiencing a truce, but the Government faces new impasses in Parliament. Meanwhile, Ventura dictates demands to approve the Single Social Benefit in a true political marketplace.
Three of the six people detained by the PSP following the unrest in front of the Assembly of the Republic on the day of the general strike have been placed under identity and residence requirements. Additionally, Chega criticises the PSU.
MP Cristina Rodrigues, of the Chega party, will face a new trial in the case known as the PAN 'email blackout'. The Lisbon Court of Appeal annulled the initial acquittal and ordered a retrial. According to Lusa, the judges accepted arguments from the Public Prosecutor's Office and PAN, noting that the original verdict was reached without waiting for documentary evidence from the Assembly of the Republic and lacked sufficient reasoning regarding the use of the email account for personal purposes. The case concerns an alleged 'IT blackout' in 2020, where the prosecution claimed the defendants deliberately deleted thousands of emails to hinder the party's political activities.
The leader of the liberals spoke on the sidelines of a visit to the Lisbon Book Fair and criticised Chega for 'having one discourse on Monday and the opposite discourse the following Monday' regarding the constitutional revision that both parties intend to pursue. Mariana Leitão says she will present a proposal at the end of the year.
Mariana Leitão stated that Chega, when presenting the proposal, “already knew the constraints that existed,” namely the PSD's opposition regarding the timing.
The Iranian Foreign Minister says that until the negotiations are finalised, everything else is speculation. Additionally, PSG players were received by Macron today.
Despite the Constitutional Court's rejection, Chega is moving forward with a parliamentary confirmation vote on the decree regarding the loss of nationality as an accessory penalty. Without support from the PSD and IL, a two-thirds majority is unlikely.
Ventura stated he had informed the other parliamentary groups of this request so that the parliament can confirm or reject the bill 'within a very short period'.
The President of the Parliament cites concerns regarding the material limits of the Constitution, including the proposal to repeal Article 288, which protects fundamental rights.
The president of Chega, André Ventura, accused the secretary-general of the Socialist Party (PS), José Luís Carneiro, this Thursday of providing “infantilised” explanations regarding the searches carried out by the Judiciary Police at the PS national headquarters, as well as several municipal councils and parishes in Lisbon, Mafra, Oeiras, and Coimbra, as part of the so-called “Operation Imergente”. Ventura stated that...
In reactions to the PJ operation and searches carried out at companies, the PS headquarters, and several parish councils in Lisbon, António Rodrigues, deputy and vice-president of the PSD parliamentary group, argued this Thursday that the investigation must go 'to the limit and to the end', stressing that 'institutions are working' and that it is essential for the authorities to be able to carry out their investigative work.
António José Seguro granted the audience request made by the Chega leader, who is expected to bring topics such as SIRESP or changes to the Court of Auditors law to Belém.
André Ventura questions the “integrity” of this choice for SIRESP. Also in this newspaper, Torreense is the first team from the second division to win a Portuguese Cup.
