2025 General Election

The newly re-elected Democratic Alliance (AD) government headed by Luís Montenegro is to shave €500 million off income tax this year while slashing IRC taxes gradually from 21% (20% in Madeira) [...]

The leader of Portuguese populist party Chega – now the leading opposition party in the parliament – André Ventura, has accused the Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, of [...]

The second Democratic Alliance (AD) government headed by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has created a new ministry devoted to State reform. The government, which won the General Election in [...]

Portugal went to the polls yesterday (Sunday, May 18) with the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) winning the general election with 32.72% (1.9 million) of the vote, securing 89 MPs in [...]

The Canadian ratings agency DBRS has weighed in on Sunday’s election results by saying that the Democratic Alliance (AD) win gives more force to continued sound economic and budgetary policies [...]

Eleven years after the collapse of Portugal’s Banco Espírito Santo, leaving thousands who had invested life savings in supposedly safe covered bonds penniless, the victims say they will lodge a [...]

The current AD caretaker government looks set to win an absolute majority on election day on May 18 if the latest polls are anything to go by. The latest poll from Pitagórica for Jornal de [...]

Portugal needs a profound political, administrative, judicial and fiscal reform if it is to join the ranks of the successful economies of Europe and not end up like Bangladesh warns populist [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Finances in the current caretaker government, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, says there is room for “ambitious IRS tax cuts” if it wins the forthcoming general election on May [...]