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...Costa’s resignation shifts the onus to Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a former leader of the opposition Social Democrats, who accepted Costa’s resignation and must now decide whether to dissolve...
...After being nominated by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Montenegro said he would be in Brussels on Thursday to meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen....
...Costa has consistently denied wrongdoing....
...Costa has not been formally accused of wrongdoing but is still being investigated by prosecutors....
...President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced the March 10 date after Costa quit this week hours after public prosecutors executed a number of arrest warrants and raids in an investigation into possible corruption...
...The president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, rejected the idea and announced on Thursday night that he would dissolve parliament at the end of November and call a general election for March 10....
...President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Thursday night announced the March 10 date after Costa, a Socialist in power since 2015, resigned this week just hours after prosecutors executed several arrest warrants...
...President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Thursday night announced the March 10 date after Costa, a Socialist in power since 2015, resigned this week hours after prosecutors executed several arrest warrants and...
...Costa’s request became moot last Thursday when Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa rejected the idea of appointing a new premier and instead opted to call a general election for March 10....
...His resignation prompted Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, to call a general election for March 10....
...Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who must nominate a new prime minister after the election, could also have a say....
...Costa’s proposal has triggered a public spat between Centeno and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president who has the power to appoint prime ministers....
...It awaits a decision on Thursday from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on whether to appoint another prime minister from the current parliament, which analysts regard as unlikely, or dissolve parliament...
...So we’ll find out today what the president — a gentleman called Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa — will do. He could choose to appoint a new prime minister from Costa’s own Socialist party....
...Context: Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa yesterday called a general election for March following the resignation of prime minister António Costa, who was felled on Tuesday by corruption allegations...
...We want peace,” Lula said in Lisbon on Saturday alongside Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal’s president....
...Fifty years ago, they performed that inadvertent service for Portuguese readers, when Marcelo Caetano’s regime banned a striking and unclassifiable work, New Portuguese Letters....
...His Socialist party “has been granted exceptional conditions to do what needs to be done without excuses,” said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal’s centre-right president, at the prime minister’s swearing-in...
...Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal’s centre-right president, warned before the vote that he would dissolve parliament and call an election two years ahead of schedule if the bill was defeated....
...That praise will ring hollow this week as Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal’s president, prepares to dissolve parliament and call an election two years ahead of schedule after Costa failed to persuade the...
...If the budget is defeated, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal’s centre-right president, has said he will immediately dissolve parliament and call a general election two years ahead of schedule....
...But Costa has been forced to put any such ambitions to the side, at least temporarily....
...Rwanda, Mexico and Costa Rica among others have joined in volunteering to take people in....
...Citing the need for political stability, Mr Rebelo de Sousa has been supportive of the minority socialist government of António Costa, the prime minister, over the past five years....
...Marcelo Elizondo, a specialist in foreign trade from Argentina, argues Mercosur has no consensus on its international strategy....
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