The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, this Tuesday swore in the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government, in a ceremony at the Ajuda National Palace, in Lisbon.
In the Ambassadors’ Room of the Ajuda National Palace, 23 days after the early legislative elections on March 10, the head of state swore in the prime minister and then the 17 ministers of the minority executive formed by PSD and CDS-PP.
The XXIV Constitutional Government will be completed with the inauguration of the Secretaries of State, scheduled for Friday.
In this Tuesday’s ceremony, which began at exactly 6pm (Portuguese time), the members of the new Executive were called one by one, in hierarchical order, to take the oath and sign the instrument of inauguration, a process that lasted around 13 minutes.
The new president of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, the outgoing Prime Minister, António Costa, and outgoing ministers from the previous Government, and the Attorney General of the Republic, Lucília Gago, attended this inauguration ceremony.
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