António Costa’s resignation, announced on Tuesday, was reported by much of the international media. International newspapers such as The Washington Post and Le Monde I quote the news agency Associated Press reporting Costa’s involvement in a “widespread corruption investigation”.
This news made headlines on a Brazilian news portal. G1 group membership globe, where you can read: “Suspicions of corruption in the energy sector remove the Prime Minister of Portugal.” In the same news G1 says Costa’s resignation came “after three terms and an unexpected turnaround in the elections.”
Spanish El País writes that the Prime Minister has resigned.”after participating in an investigation related to influence peddling, corruption and malfeasance in energy projects.” La Voz de Galicia also made this case the headline of its online publication, also mentioning that “The President of the Republic [Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa] “Now he has the opportunity to entrust a new government to the Socialist Party (which has an absolute majority) or to call elections in Portugal.”
ABOUT The newspaper “New York Timesone of North America’s most important newspapers, reports that Antonio Costa resigned “unexpectedly” hours after police raided government buildings “as part of an investigation into corruption and influence peddling.”
Quoting AFPFrench newspaper Le Figaro writes: “Shocked by a corruption case that led to the indictment of one of his ministers and his chief of staff, the Portuguese Prime Minister, the socialist António Coastannounced Tuesday that he had resigned.
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