The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, today swore in the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and the ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government, in a ceremony at the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon.
In the Ambassadors’ Room of the Ajuda National Palace, 23 days after the early parliamentary elections on March 10, the head of state swore in the prime minister and then the 17 ministers of the minority executive formed by PSD and CDS-PP.
The XXIV Constitutional Government will be complete with the swearing-in of the Secretaries of State, scheduled for Friday.
At today’s ceremony, which began at exactly 6pm, the members of the new executive were called up one by one, in hierarchical order, to take the oath and sign the instrument of investiture, a process that lasted around 13 minutes.
The swearing-in ceremony was attended by the new President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, the outgoing Prime Minister, António Costa, and outgoing ministers from the previous government, as well as the Attorney General, Lucília Gago.
