Family photo taken without rain, with Montenegro and 17 ministers.

The XXIV Constitutional Government this Wednesday took the traditional family photo with the Prime Minister and 17 ministers during the first government meeting after the inauguration on Tuesday.

In the first row of the stairs where the photograph was taken, next to the garden and swimming pool of the official residence of the Prime Minister, Luis Montenegro, smiling, is between two ministers of state – Paulo Rangel (foreign affairs) and Joaquim Miranda Sarmento (finance). ) – he even joked: “We stopped the rain on purpose.”

The front row is completed by Presidential Minister Antonio Leitan Amaru, Justice Minister Rita Giudice, Internal Administration Minister Margarida Blasco and Undersecretary for Territorial Cohesion Manuel Castro Almeida.

SDS-PP leader and Minister of National Defense Nuno Melo was in the second row, behind the prime minister.

The 18 members of the government – the secretaries of state who will take office only on Friday are still unknown – posed for several minutes for the image.

“There have already been enough clicks,” Montenegro said afterwards.

The Council of Ministers meeting, which began shortly after 8:30 a.m., continues without State and Foreign Affairs Minister Paulo Rangel, who has left to attend a NATO meeting in Brussels.

In the room where the “briefing” with the Presidential Minister António Leitan Amaru will take place at approximately 12 o’clock, the logo of the XXIV Government is already emblazoned, which has restored the previous image with the armillary shield and the angles that were previously changed by the previous leader, António Costa.

Head of State Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Tuesday took the oath of office as prime minister and then 17 ministers of the minority executive formed by the PSD and SDS-PP in the Ambassadorial Hall of the National Palace of Ajuda, 23 days after the snap legislative elections on March 10.