António Pedro Santos / Lusa
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Margarida Blasco
Margarida Blasco and Dalila Rodrigues should not return to the folders of internal administration and culture, respectively. The Minister of Health should continue.
With elections at the door, Montenegro is already aligning who will continue and who will be leaving a possible second government.
Despite the strategic silence of the social democratic leader about the constitution of the next executive, nearby sources heard by the guarantee that Margarida Blasco should not continue ahead of the Ministry of Internal Administration. The decision will be based on Blasco’s unavailability due to personal and family reasons, and the minister had already hesitated to accept Montenegro’s invitation to the current government.
The exclusion of the election campaign minister seems to reinforce the idea of his departure. Internally, they have always existed doubts about your communicational capacityespecially in a folder as exposed as that of internal administration. Controversial episodes such as reference to “rotten fruit” in PSP, statements on military service for delinquent young people or the disappearance at critical moments, such as September 2024 fires, have also negatively marked their mandate.
Dalila RodriguesMinister of Culture, should not return either. The observer’s sources describe their behavior as “irascible, fickle and unpredictableAnd the anti-bodies that generated successive exonerations and conflicts with cultural agents will be behind his departure. His recent interview with JN, in which he openly expressed the desire to continue in office and compliments praise for his own work, was also badly received in the circle near Luís Montenegro.
In contrast, ANA PAULA MARTINSMinister of Health, seems to be more likely to stay in government. Although it is on the list of remodellables and having accumulated successive controversials, since its response to the strike in INEM or its choices for hospital managers without prior experience, it has received constant support from Montenegro, including compliments in internal PSD forums and the invitation to lead the list in Vila Real.