Manuel de Almeida / Lusa
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, accompanied by Health Minister Ana Paula Martins
Despite the successive controversies, Montenegro should keep the confidence in Ana Paula Martins in the Health Folder. Already Margarida Blasco and Pedro Duarte are leaving the executive.
The new government led by Luís Montenegro will keep several elements of the previous executive, but will also bring significant changes in some folders. According to, Ana Paula Martins will remain as Minister of Health, despite strong criticisms during the past legislature
Already Margarida Blasco will be out of the internal administration folder, as well as Pedro DuarteMinister of Parliamentary Affairs who will be a candidate for the presidency of the Porto Chamber. Previously, the news also realized one of the culture folder.
In contrast, in areas such as Finance (Joaquim Miranda Sarmento), Economics (Pedro Reis), Foreign Business (Paulo Rangel), Infrastructure (Miguel Pinto Luz), Territorial Cohesion (Manuel Castro Almeida), Environment (Graça Carvalho) and Agriculture (José Manuel Fernandes), changes are not expected.
On the other hand, the president of the CDS, Nuno MeloHe avoided confirming whether he will continue as Minister of National Defense, stressing that “the formation of the government is responsible for the prime minister”, and reiterating that “a government has a leader”-the Montenegro himself.
In the first year of governance, Montenegro has already changed six secretariats. One of these substitutions occurred after the dismissal of Hernani Diasformer secretary of state who came out after being revealed that he founded two companies while performing governing functions that could benefit from the new soil law.
After the outrage as Prime Minister by the President of the Republic, Luís Montenegro assured that the new executive would be “necessarily new”, but with “Many elements that move from the previous governmentAnd a “renewed energy”. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s expectation is that the inauguration takes place next week, after the publication of the definitive results of the elections in the Diário da República and the installation of the new legislature.
With the configuration of the new executive almost finalized, attention now turns to the final choices and the impact they can have on the start of another governance cycle.
