Three paragraphs and not much content. The communiqué of the Presidency of the Republic only mentions that “the analysis of the political, economic and social situation has been completed” and that “with regard to the issue of Ukraine, the solidarity and admiration for the resistance of the Ukrainian people have been reaffirmed and all support that Portugal has offered – with full agreement between the sovereign political bodies – in its many dimensions, namely political, diplomatic, military and humanitarian.
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 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
