Portugal’s government on brink of collapse

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Prime Minister Luis Montenegro on Tuesday faced a vote of confidence by a scandal on his family business on Tuesday, the center-right government of Portugal was on the verge of collapse.

May be likely to be defeated PortugalThird elections in less than four years since the government is facing pressure to increase defense expenses, and spread by anti -immigrant attitude that encourages far right.

Montenegro, who is Lead to a fragile minority government For 6 months, he has been accused of failing to remove his partnership at a suggestion established.

Saga has strengthened public ideas about widespread corruption in Portuguese politics, where previous premiers faced allegations of corruption.

The Democratic Alliance Party chief Montenegro established a firm called Spinumviva in 2021 when he was out of politics. However, in 2022, he was defensively imposed by his wife and sons to transfer its ownership to his wife and sons – critics said that married couples under the Portuguese law were the general owners of all the assets acquired after marriage.

Socialist anti -social leader Pedro Nuno has been accused of “paying money to the companies” to Santos Montenigro and the Prime Minister has continued to provide spinumeviva client advisers.

When the socialists threatened to set up a parliamentary investigation on the matter last week, Montenegro said, “The country needs political precision” and announced that he would submit his government with a confidence vote.

Montenegro continued to stir the opposition’s debate and emphasized that he had made no mistake.

Paula Estrito Santo, a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Lisbon, said that while becoming a party leader in 2022, Montenegro consultant operated the goods badly without selling or closing.

In recent weeks, he said: “He had an option to try to clarify everything, but he didn’t do it and it had snow. The The He was not ahead of the incident. He is responding to the events. “

Last week, the wife of Montenegro shifted her shares to the couple’s adult kids in this company.

Through training, a lawyer, Montenegro says he will lead the ad on any new election, which the president of the country has said that it will be held in May.

ADT is voting for two percent points in the end of February, but still a little ahead of the socialist party, 5.7 percent of the vote against 21.5 percent, a CNN Portugal survey conducted last week with the intensity.

US President Donald Trump will face immediate pressure to increase defense expenses due to US President Donald Trump’s railways against not giving fair part to NATO members. Portugal spent about 1.6 percent of GDP on defense last year, which will be raised short of 2 percent of NATO’s target. Trump says he wants Proconcts the target to 5 percentThe

The advertisement of the parliamentary majority is in the big part of the struggle CheekCapitalizes a far right party over dissatisfaction with immigration and corruption. Both Chega and Socialist are expected to vote for the expulsion of Montenegro at the pace of confidence.

While working with Chega while in the office and lack of its majority, he was unable to implement significant reforms. He passed some tax cut with the help of the socialists and the 2025 budget was approved because the socialists were avoided.

Portugal’s previous Prime Minister Antonio Costa, now the president of the EU Council, has resigned in 2021 Lobbying scandal It is still being investigated by prosecutors, though he has not been accused of abusing him. The Premier Jose Sacrates of the Premier Jose of 20-27 is awaiting trial for money laundering and lying. Both men deny wrongdoing.