Portugal’s newly elected government, headed by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, is in favor of Ukrainian accession to the European Union, the country's new Foreign Minister, Paulo Rangel, said on April 4.
Early information in the Portuguese parliamentary elections Sunday showed a voter turnout of 25.2% by mid-afternoon - almost two points higher than elections at the beginning of 2022, according to the electoral authority CNE in Lisbon. Polls for the 10.8 million voters to elect the 230 members of the "Assembleia da República" close at 8 pm (1900 GMT). The consensus among opinion pollsters was a narrow victory for the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition over the Socialist Party (PS).