Last Tuesday’s meeting of the Council of State, to finalize the analysis of the country’s situation and take stock of the international situation, began at 3:10 p.m. at the Belém Palace in Lisbon, with three absences.
The three absent are the president of the Constitutional Court, José João Abrantes, the president of the regional government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, and Councilor of State António Damásio, a source from the presidency of the republic told Lusa.
This is the 31st of the political consultative body of the President of the Republic under the mandate of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The head of state convened it with two items on the agenda: conclusion of the analysis of the country’s economic, social and political situation, which began at the July meeting it is a assessment of the international situation, with particular reference to the war in Ukraine — where Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was in August — and the global economic situation.
The July 21 meeting, which lasted some four and a half hours, ended without any conclusions being announced, on an evening when Prime Minister António Costa had a flight to New Zealand to attend the debut of the women’s Portuguese squad . football world cup.
In mid-August, the President of the Republic announced that a new meeting of the Council of State would be held in early September to complete the previous meeting.
Speaking from the Algarve, where he spent his vacation, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that at the July 21 meeting, after all state councilors had spoken, “a possible final intervention by the prime minister, as well as his usual “closing intervention”.
Source: DN
