Four-hour New Year address: President quotes Eça de Queirós
The President of the Republic delivered a four-hour New Year address in which he quoted the Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós.
Between criticism and praise: parties react to Marcelo's final New Year's speech
Most parties took the opportunity to take stock of the President's term, with PSD and CDS offering praise, Chega and IL criticising, and BE and PAN saying it was a source of instability.
10pm New Year's address: President quotes Eça de Queirós
The President delivered the New Year's address at 10pm and included a quotation from the Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós.
Marcelo invokes Eça and calls for a Portugal with 'a future better than its past'
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa referenced writer Eça de Queirós and urged Portugal to aim for a future that is better than its past.
Marcelo to deliver his last New Year’s speech at 8pm
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will deliver his final New Year’s message today as President of the Republic, which he has promised will be ‘shorter than the others’ he has made The post Marcelo to deliver his last New Year’s speech at 8pm appeared first on Portugal Resident.
8pm on Christmas Eve: messages from the presidential candidates
At 8pm on Christmas Eve, messages from the presidential candidates will be aired.
From the twins to the pandemic: Marcelo bids farewell to the Christmas ginjinha, offering a retrospective of his term and criticising delays in selecting members of the Council of State
Although still recovering, the President of the Republic kept the tradition of having lunch in Barreiro. On his way out, he criticised the delay in electing members of the Council of State and described the pandemic as 'the worst years' of his term and the 'perfect storm' of 2023.
