Portuguese voters delivered a surprising absolute majority to incumbent Prime Minister António Costa, the head of the ruling Socialist Party (PS) who won the Sunday’s snap general election. António Costa is serving as the current Prime Minister of Portugal since 26 November 2015. The Socialist Party (PS) won 117 seats in the 230 seat parliament, […]
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Elections: Absolute majority to incumbent socialist PM António Costa – Portugal
Posted on 31 January 2022.
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Book: ‘Fourth World Woman’ poetry by Lara Gularte – Editor’s Note
Posted on 30 January 2022.
Gularte’s identification with herself through the natural world and through the lives of others with whom she feels more than just symbolic empathy, provides us with something unique to the usual landscape that poetry’s created in our late 20th and early 21st century: passion. Engaged to the particular, Gularte brings us closer to a world […]
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Book: ‘Through a Grainy Landscape’ by Millicent Accardi – Review
Posted on 27 January 2022.
By Vamberto Freitas I’ve read and written about the poetry of Millicent Borges Accardi before. Yet I always make a point of never revisiting what I’ve already written. By writing regular criticism or literary essays on individual authors one always runs the risk of sub-consciously repeating ourselves. Suffice to say that Millicent is not only […]
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Opinion: Democratic freedom will prevail after elections – Portugal
Posted on 23 January 2022.
By Len Port In the run-up to Portugal’s national legislative election, it’s worth remembering that this country is internationally recognized as a stable parliamentary democracy with a multiparty political system and free and fair elections every four years – except the timing of this latest is different. The Prime Minister holds the most executive power […]
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COVID’19: The 50,000 daily count infections surpassed – Portugal
Posted on 19 January 2022.
Portugal has surpassed for the first time the barrier of 50,000 daily COVID’19 cases this Wednesday, since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the Portuguese health authority, in the last 24 hours, the country recorded 52,549 more cases of infection and 33 fatalities. Of the new cases of infection recorded today 22,455 occurred in […]
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Netflix: Five films by five Portuguese women directors and producers – Portugal
Posted on 17 January 2022.
Starting in January 2022, Netflix will feature five films by five Portuguese women directors and producers – Catarina Vasconcelos, Raquel Castro, Margarida Gil, Marta Ribeiro and Maria Clara Escobar – on partnership with Portuguese Film Academy. The five films were selected by a jury, aiming at giving more visibility to women who have been involved […]
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