Tuesday’s Council of State meeting, which will complete an analysis of the national situation and take stock of the international situation, began at 15:10 at the Palacio de Belem in Lisbon, with three absent.
Those absent include the president of the Constitutional Court, José João Abrantes, the president of the Madeira regional government, Miguel Albuquerque, and state councilor António Damácio, a source in the Republic’s presidency told Lusa.
This is the 31st meeting of the political advisory body to the President of the Republic, held during the term of office of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The head of state convened it, putting two items on the agenda: completion of the analysis of the economic, social and political situation in the country, begun at the July meeting, and an assessment of the international situation with an emphasis on the war in Ukraine – where Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was in August – and the global economic situation.
The July 21 meeting, which lasted about four-and-a-half hours, ended without any conclusions being published, on the night Prime Minister Antonio Costa was on a plane to New Zealand to attend Portugal’s women’s debut. Soccer World Cup.
In mid-August, the President of the Republic announced that a new meeting of the State Council would be held in early September, which would conclude the previous meeting.
Speaking from the Algarve, where he was on holiday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that at a meeting on July 21, after all members of the Council of State had spoken, “the possible final intervention of the Prime Minister remained pending” as well as his usual “closing intervention “