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The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in a hearing with Luís Montenegro, in 2024
The President of the Republic begins to hear, on Tuesday, the political parties that obtained parliamentary representation in Sunday’s legislative elections. The first hearing will be with the PSD; followed by the PS and arrives.
Following the elections for the Assembly of the Republic of Sunday, the President of the Republic will start, on Tuesday, consultations with political parties that obtained parliamentary representation.
O first party leader to be heard will be Luís Montenegro.
The election party leader will be heard at 11h00.
In the afternoon, the auditions with the classified seconds are followed in these elections: PS at 15h00; and arrives at 17h00.
The hearing of the remaining seven parties that obtained parliamentary representation – Il, free, PCP, CDS-PP, BE, PAN and JPP-have not yet been released.
Pursuant to Article 187 (1) of the Constitution, “the prime minister is appointed by the President of the Republic, hearing the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic and taking into account the electoral results.”
AD (PSD/CDS-PP) won Sunday’s early legislative elections, with 32.10% of the votes and 86 deputies on the continent and Madeira, which total 0.62% and three elected by the PSD/CDS-PP/PPM coalition in the Azores. Of these 89 Elected, 87 are from PSD and two from CDS-PP.
When the vows of the circles of emigration and attribute the respective four terms remain, the PS is the second most voted, with 23.38% of the votes, and elected 58 deputies, the same ones that arrive, which has lower voting, 22.56%.
According to the provisional results released by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, follows IL, fourth, with 5.53% of the votes and nine deputies, and then the free, with 4.2% and six elected.
The CDU (PCP/PEV) obtained 3.03% of the votes and elected three deputies, all from the PCP. Be, with 2%, and Pan, with 1.36%, elected one deputy each, as well as JPP, from Madeira, which had 0.34%of the votes in national terms.
What will you do Marcelo?
Eleven days ago, the head of state said he wanted to name a government with the certainty that the respective program will be made possible in Parliamentwhich considered to be “the fundamental question” in this matter.
“The president is free to name a government with the government is not immediately rejected. It is not comfortable naming it with not that certainty,” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa told reporters at the time.
The Constitution establishes that the Government program is submitted to the Assembly of the Republic “within a maximum period of ten days after its appointment” and any parliamentary group may “propose the rejection of the program or the government request the approval of a vote of confidence”.
A year ago, following the advance legislatures of March 10, the President of the Republic heard the parties and coalitions over nine days, starting with the PAN and ending at AD (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM).
At the time, still without the results of emigration, the PSD was tied in deputies with the PS, a situation that remained after the distribution of these terms, but with the CDS-PP added two more elected.
On April 2, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa took office to the minority government PSD/CDS-PP headed by Luís Montenegro, who fell in March this year, when the confidence motion he presented in Parliament was rejected with votes against PS, arrives, BE, PCP, Free and PAN, during a political crisis that emerged from a prime minister’s family business.
