Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has announced he's dissolving the nation’s parliament and calling an early election two days after Prime Minister António Costa resigned with his government tainted by a corruption scandal
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Thursday that he was dissolving the nation’s parliament and calling an early election, the announcement coming two days after Prime Minister António Costa resigned with his government tainted by a corruption scandal. The new election, Rebelo de Sousa said, would be on March 10.
Costa, a Socialist, has led Portugal since 2015 and won a landslide election just last year. But he stepped down immediately after Portugal was rocked by a major police raid on Tuesday as part of a corruption investigation that included the arrest of his chief of staff along with four other people and one of his minister’s being named as a suspect. Costa took only a few hours to address the nation and say that, while asserting his innocence, he was unable to stay in his post.
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