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The decision to remove Rita Rato from the management of the Aljube Museum forces us to ask the question again: why remove someone from there who does a lot and does it well? Opinion piece by Isabel Santiago.
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The leader of the JSD appealed today to the President of the Republic to appoint a young person to the Council of State, a challenge he had already issued to Marques Mendes, who committed to doing so if he reached Belém.
PSD deputy insists that “Portugal needs stability, ambition, and confidence in the future”.
The former communist MP was not reappointed for a new term. Her selection in 2020 was contested, but Rato was eventually reappointed in 2023.
I believe there are happy cases of 'redemption', but it does not seem to me that, just half a dozen months after the elections, there are many Chega militants who, like Saint Paul on the road to Damascus, have fallen from their horses blinded by the light of social democracy. I hope the PS leadership does not waver in its censure of these appointments and enforces its word.
Former Secretary of State for the Sea, Lídia Bulcão, has been appointed Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of State for Youth and Equality, Carla Rodrigues. The appointment was published in the Diário da República on March 10, with retroactive effect from January 19. Bulcão, a former PSD member of parliament and journalist, previously served in the first government of Luís Montenegro. Her tenure as Secretary of State for the Sea included significant work on maritime spatial planning, offshore renewable energy, and international ocean conservation initiatives.
The current president of CCDR-North is standing for re-election, facing Álvaro Santos, a candidate put forward by the PSD as part of an agreement with the PS to allocate the presidencies among the parties.
