“Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa resigned on Tuesday amid an investigation into alleged irregularities committed by his majority Socialist administration in handling lithium mining and hydrogen projects in the country,” according to Reuters.
“Cops searched Costa’s official residence and detained his chief of staff, Vítor Escária, Portugal’s attorney general said earlier Tuesday,” according to Politico.
“Local media reports that the feud was related to homing pigeons and an illegal vegetable garden,” according to the BBC.
A lot of things will be up in the air for a while after the sudden resignation of Antonio Costa.
Previously: Portugal’s PM Costa resigns over corruption investigation “Within days … the threads of the [‘Operation Influencer’] investigation began to unravel, after Portuguese prosecutors admitted they had confused the name
“‘In respect for many of [the summit’s] guests, especially North Americans and recently the former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro and his entourage, who have been prevented from travelling by
“There is an approximate (number of accused priests) and it will clearly be more than 100,” child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht, who headed the commission, told SIC television, according to Reuters.
Portugal’s Prime Minister as well as its Foreign Minister have said they support UN Secretary-General António Guterres as Israel calls for his resignation following his remarks on the Israel-Hamas war.
For starters, “[n]ext month, in May, Ventura should receive [former Brazilian President Jair] Bolsonaro and the deputy prime minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, among other right-wing names in Lisbon for
Protestors stopped in front of the seat of the Portuguese National Assembly, where the fate of the country’s animal protection legislation will eventually be decided.
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