The list of Secretaries of State for the XXIV Constitutional Government will be announced today, said a source from the Presidency of the Republic, without giving an estimated time.
This information was given to journalists half an hour after the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, left the Belém Palace and said that the full composition of the XXIV Constitutional Government would be announced “later”.
“It was a good meeting, we talked about a lot of issues, but the composition of the government will be known later,” said Luís Montenegro, in a short statement to journalists as he left his first weekly meeting with the head of state after taking office two days ago.
Luís Montenegro arrived at the Belém Palace at 18:04, accompanied only by his chief of staff, Pedro Perestrelo Pinto, and left around 19:30.
A week ago, when Luís Montenegro left a short audience with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to hand him the proposal of 17 ministers, the note on the website of the Presidency of the Republic with the composition of the executive was released a few minutes later.
Today’s hearing was the first weekly meeting between the two, which is why the media was able to take images.
On arrival in Belém, Montenegro carried a small briefcase in his hand and simply wished journalists “good afternoon”.
On Tuesday, the head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, swore in the prime minister and then the 17 ministers of the minority executive formed by PSD and CDS-PP, in the Ambassadors’ Room of the Ajuda National Palace, 23 days after the early parliamentary elections on March 10.
The XXIV Constitutional Government will only be complete with the swearing-in of the Secretaries of State, scheduled for Friday at 6pm at the Ajuda National Palace.
