The designated prime minister of Portugal, the conservative Luís Montenegro, introduced this Thursday the composition of his new Government, which It could have 17 ministers, of which 7 are girlsand with their trusted politicians in the foremost portfolios.
The listing was revealed this Thursday on the web site of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic after Montenegro, chief of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) – which leads the profitable coalition of the elections of March 10Democratic Alliance (AD) -, met with the head of state, the conservative Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in a short assembly of about quarter-hour.
The new Executive, who comes after greater than eight years of socialist authoritieshas the identical quantity of ministries as the one led by António Costa since 2022, with the quantity of State Secretariats but to be disclosed.
Among the most notable names is that of former MEP and vp of the PSD, Paulo Rangel, who might be Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, and that of the economist and former chief of the center-right get together’s bench in Parliament, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, who will lead the State and Finance portfolio.
He Ministry of Economy might be headed by Pedro Reis, former president of the Agency for Investment and External Trade of Portugal and coordinator inside the get together; whereas the vp of the PSD Miguel Pinto Luz might be answerable for Infrastructure and Housing.
On the different hand, the portfolio of Defense might be in the fingers of the president of the Christian Democrat CDS-PP -one of the forces that make up the Democratic Alliance-, the lawyer and the till now MEP Nuno Melo.
The former director of the Portuguese Information and Security Service, Margarida Blasco, will lead the Ministry of Internal Administration; The lawyer Rita Judice might be answerable for the Justice portfolio, and Health might be in cost of the former president of the Portuguese College of Pharmacists, Ana Paula Martins.
The composition of new conservative authorities who will take workplace on April 2, has been a shock saved till the final minute, since, in contrast to earlier events, there have been no leaks about who was going to go the portfolios.
Due to the tight electoral outcomes (which gave the Democratic Alliance 80 of the 230 deputies in Parliament), The future Cabinet is pressured to control by decreeat the very least to implement in the first months some of the measures included in the conservative coalition program.
