Third election in three years: Portuguese minority government loses trust mood

The Portuguese minority government has lost a vote of trust in parliament, so that the country stands before elections for the third three years. The disagreement in parliament revolves around possible conflicts of interest in the business transactions of the family lawyer’s office of the prime minister Luis Montenegro. The timing for new elections could not be worse now that the country is busy with investments of more than 22 billion euros in EU development funds.

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