Elections

The Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno has not ruled out running for the presidency of Portugal in January, 2026. In an interview with celebrity CNN business journalist, Richard [...]

An interesting reflection on the reasons behind the rise of the far right and populist political parties in Europe was delivered to the members of the International Club of Portugal (ICPT) by [...]

Business analysts have voiced concerns over yesterday’s elections in Portugal saying a hung parliament, the prospect of the country’s State Budget for 2025 not being passed, and risks to [...]

History is littered with disagreeable people who won elections on the back of election pledges that promised to resolve national insecurities, with Churchill and Kennedy just two examples. This [...]

Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa and his ruling Partido Socialista party won a clear majority in Portugal’s General Election at the end of January. As the dust settles, five leading lights [...]

The Portuguese went to the polls on Sunday and delivered a surprising majority win to the incumbent Socialist Party government led by António Costa. The controversial outlying far right, [...]

Carlos Moedas, a former European Commissioner who won the municipal elections in Lisbon, was officially sworn in as the Portuguese capital’s mayor on Monday in a ceremony at city hall. The PSD [...]

Former EU commissioner Carlos Moedas has won the race for Lisbon City Hall and is, against all the odds, Lisbon’s new mayor. The mayoral candidate, who was considered a rank outsider by media and [...]

The campaign for the Lisbon City Council elections in September will likely be close but the pundits say it is a done deal for the current incumbent in city hall, Fernando Medina. First, Medina [...]

The front-running candidate who will face Lisbon Mayor Fernando Medina at the municipal council elections on 26 September, Carlos Moedas, has promised to shake up the notoriously slow and [...]