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In your last New Year message as head of stateMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he expected, in global terms, “a year with more development, more justice, more freedom, more equality, more solidarity“.
The President of the Republic expressed the desire for 2026 to be a year with more health, education, housing, justice and tolerance. In his New Year’s message, he said he trusted that Portugal would have a better future, with “solutions and new people”, alluding to the Portuguese’s upcoming electoral choices.
In your last New Year message as head of statemade live from the Palácio de Belém, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he expected, in global terms, “a year with more development, more justice, more freedom, more equality, more solidarity“.
“The same desire goes for us, it goes for Portugal. New year, new life. Also with more health, more education, more housing, more justice, even more growth, even more jobs and less poverty and inequality”, he added, also asking for “more tolerance, more agreement” and “a sense of national cohesion”.
The President of the Republic hoped for a 2026 with improvements in various sectors, “with new ideas, solutions and people”, noting that “this is the nature and strength of democracy”.
Less than three weeks before the presidential elections on January 18, he stated that “the people freely choose what they want and who they want for the future, with the hope that it will be different and better than the past” in terms of “ideas, solutions and people”and expressed the certainty that the country will have a “better future than its past”.
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