Portugal will expel about 18,000 illegal immigrants before the first national elections
The provisional government of Portugal announced on Saturday to expel about 18,000 foreigners who live in the country No authorization or legal authorization. António Leitão Amaro, Minister of the Presidency, said that the right -wing government will issue about 18,000 notifications to illegal immigrants who ask them to leave. According to Amaro, officials will start next week of around 4,500 immigrants without documents that leave voluntarily within 20 days.
The announcement is produced on the eve of Early electionsscheduled for May 18th. Last week, the local press mentioned Amaro stating that “Portugal must review its deportation system, which does not work”. And he said: “It is important to realize that Portugal is One of the three countries in Europe that performs less deportations of the people to whom he was ordered to let the standards violate, also for security reasons. “
The first elections of this month were summoned in March by the Prime Minister, Luís MontenegroAfter his minority government, led by his conservative social democratic party, has lost a motion of trust in Parliament and has resigned.
What caused the government’s fall?
Montenegro, who took power less than a year ago, was accused of a possible Conflict of interest In relation to a family law firm. Apparently, the company had received payments from a company with an important concession of gambling granted by the government.
“Defit the uncertainty”, Montenegro convened the first elections. Instead, the opposition parties have allocated to overturn it. His government, a bipartisan alliance, had been in power for less than a year and only had done so 80 seats in the current legislature230 seats.
A vast majority of opposition legislators, led by the Socialists of the Centrale on the left and Chega, who add 128 seats, promised to vote and did it. The next elections lead to the country, of 10.6 million inhabitants, to months of political uncertaintyJust when you invest over 22,000 million euros in EU development funds to reorient its economy.
Political analysts also observed with concern the growing wave of European populism In the country, with the extreme party on the right Chega listening to third place in the elections last year.
From the transition to democracy after Revolution of the Garofano 1974Which put an end to a dictatorship of four decades, Portugal had not experienced a political agitation like the current one. The disappearance of the minority government in March marks the worst series of political instability in 50 years of democracy in the country.
