A Blocist source told the Lusa agency that, “as happened in the past, the Left Bloc will not be represented at the inauguration of a right-wing Government”.
A communist source explained that it was “the PCP’s practice for decades not to participate in the inauguration of governments.”
In turn, the PS will be present, but without general secretary Pedro Nuno Santos, being represented by leader Alexandra Leitão, a PS source told Lusa.
In 2019, at the inauguration of António Costa’s second government and after the end of the contraption, the PCP sent a note explaining that it would no longer be present as had been the rule, noting that in 2015 it was an exception to take a stance against Cavaco Silva.
The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the 17 ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government take office today at 6 pm, at the Ajuda National Palace, less than a month after the AD’s victory in the March 10 legislative elections.
This will be the third executive that the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will take office – but the first led by the PSD, the party he has already presided over – and neither of the previous two served their term until the end.
In the Ambassadors’ Room, the head of state will inaugurate the prime minister and then the 17 ministers, who will be called one by one, in hierarchical order, to take the oath and sign the instrument of inauguration.
The Secretaries of State of the XXIV Constitutional Government, who are not yet known, will only take office on Friday.
