(29 May 2025)
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Lisbon, Portugal – 29 May 2025
1.Various of designated Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro meeting with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
2. Close of Portuguese coat of arms
3. Wide of Montenegro exiting meeting
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luis Montenegro, designated Portuguese Prime Minister:
“Mr. President of the Republic has appointed me to form a government, this will be a task for the coming days. So we will follow the will of the Portuguese people that was materialized in the result of the past elections, in which the coalition that I led has been reinforced with a significant ballot, one that overcame two million of votes.”
5. Wide of Montenegro speaking
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luis Montenegro, designated Portuguese Prime Minister:
“We will not make any permanent agreement of governance or parliamentary, we will speak with all political forces in the search for the best legislative and executive solutions to respond to the needs of the Portuguese and we count with everybody for that, naturally.”
7. Wide of Montenegro leaving
8. Various of meeting between leader of Chega Andre Ventura with de Sousa
9. Ventura and delegation from Chega exiting meeting
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Andre Ventura, leader of Chega party:
“Chega was welcomed here at the palace by the President of the Republic as the second most voted party in the country and at the Parliament, and also as the party that leads the opposition to the government. We also expressed clearly to the President and what we assured to the country as well, Chega has a mandate to be the leader of the opposition and it will exercise that role with responsibility of leadership.”
11. Wide of meeting between socialist party delegation and de Sousa
12. Mid of Portuguese coat of arms
13. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Carlos Cesar, Secretary-General of the Socialist Party:
“I informed the President of the Republic that our understanding is that the popular will must be respected so the Socialist Party will not participate in any action that hinders the viability of the government that comes from the elections.”
14. Close of camera
15. Close of Portuguese coat of arms
STORYLINE:
The Portuguese President has appointed Luis Montenegro as Prime Minister of Portugal, following the results of the recent election.
The official confirmation followed a series of meetings between Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and leaders from the most voted parties that resulted from the 18 May ballot.
“Mr. President of the Republic has appointed me to form a government, this will be a task for the coming days," Montenegro said following his meeting.
Montenegro is leader of the Democratic Alliance (AD) and president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
With the final counting of the ballots from overseas voters on Wednesday, the center-right DA captured two more seats to take its tally to 88.
“I informed the President of the Republic that our understanding is that the popular will must be respected so the Socialist Party will not participate in any action that hinders the viability of the government that comes from the elections," Carlos Cesar, the President of the Socialist Party said following his meeting with de Sousa.
Portugal’s anti-immigration Chega party gained the other two, notching another political gain for Europe’s far right on after it was assigned the second-most seats in parliament — it will now become the head of the parliamentary opposition to the new government.
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