Prime Minister António Costa, as well as PSD President and his predictable successor Luis Montenegro, have already begun the process of handing over the portfolios, holding a meeting in the middle of last week at the official residence of the head of Government.
According to the online newspaper observerMontenegro visited the Sao Bento Palace last Wednesday to talk to Costa about the most pressing files before he heads to Brussels to attend this week’s European Council meeting.
If there are no surprises, then next Wednesday, the 20th, the day when the results of the emigration constituency become known, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will be able to invite Montenegro to form a government.
The votes of the expatriates who elected the four deputies could still influence the final result of the legislative elections, since the AD currently has 79 parliamentarians and the PS has 77. Despite this, Socialist leader Pedro Nuno Santos has already suggested that the election defeat .