The more than 1.5 million Portuguese registered voters living abroad had the final say in the outcome of March 10 Portugal’s parliamentary early election. The overall tally, concluded this week, showed 28.84% for the center-right Democratic Alliance (PSD/AD) and 28% for the center-left Socialist Party (PS). The turnout was 59.8%. With the counting finished, President […]
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Opinion | Portuguese diaspora defines national elections – Len Port
Posted on 21 March 2024.
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Book | Welcome to Forever | by Nathan Tavares – Editor’s Note
Posted on 20 March 2024.
Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by […]
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Travel Alert | TAP aviation workers announce three-month long strike – Portugal
Posted on 20 March 2024.
The National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC), representing TAP Air Portugal ground workers, has issued a three-month strike notice regarding overtime work between March 28th and July 30th. The union claims an agreement for salary increases, of between 6% and 10%, retroactive to July 2023, was not honored by the carrier and that TAP […]
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Nuno Júdice: Most prized Portuguese contemporary poet died – Portugal
Posted on 18 March 2024.
Nuno Júdice, one of the most significant figures in contemporary Portuguese literature, known for his contributions as a poet, essayist and literary critic, died at age 74. Born on April 29, 1949, in Algarve, Portugal, he wrote his first poems when he was eight years old. Influenced by structuralism, he made his literary début in […]
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António Costa: Portugal’s gift to the United Nations – New York, NY
Posted on 18 March 2024.
The outgoing Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, is in New York this Monday to meet with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and to participate in a significant cultural contribution, the donation of a tapestry titled “Coral Vivo” by Vanessa Barragão, which will be in the permanent exhibition at the UN‘s headquarters. The symbolic gesture […]
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Opinion | Radical right surges in Portugal’s most contested election in 50 years – Len Port
Posted on 11 March 2024.
The general early election held on Sunday was Portugal’s most hotly contested legislative election since the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago, a mere six weeks before the country marks the anniversary of the revolution that established democracy. The outcome has been a slim victory for the center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) over the incumbent center-left Socialist […]
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