Portugal
Pela terceira vez em quatro anos, foram convocadas eleições legislativas em Portugal, desta vez após a rejeição de uma moção de confiança apresentada pelo governo de direita de Montenegro (PSD-CDS). Esta é mais uma prova da instabilidade e da crise institucional em que a direita e o centro liberais têm afundado o país, mas em particular das manobras desesperadas do primeiro-ministro para ocultar os seus negócios privados. A razão de fundo para a apresentação da moção de confiança – que nunca seria aprovada por um parlamento polarizado, ...
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A month into a national lockdown, Portuguese healthcare has fared far better than the southern European democracy’s welfare net. The growth of COVID-19 cases has slowed down as it approaches the twenty thousand mark, even if it’s yet to plateau. Deaths have been held down to just over six hundred. The economy, on the other hand, is headed for a historic recession.
Portugal’s first case of COVID-19 came on the 2nd of March. By then, the public had been pushed into a paranoid frenzy by weeks of apocalyptic news-reports and daily ...
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There is no Portuguese miracle, but so far Portugal has been able to flatten the curve. 24 days after the 100th case, the growth rate of new cases and deaths has slowed down. It is far from over, but these sound like good news, and are the outcome of several measures, such as the declaration of the state of emergency (supported by a large majority in the parliament), the closing of schools and the behavior of the people, who have abided to social isolation, even though no extraordinary security measures were put in place.
Nevertheless, the ...
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