“I have no doubt, the people of Lisbon will be the first next Sunday to show that this path is to continue, that Carlos Moedas will remain the Mayor, now with an absolute majority to fulfill all points of his program,” stated Luís Montenegro.
The social democratic leader joined the campaign of Carlos Moedas today, the candidate for the Lisbon City Hall supported by PSD/CDS-PP/IL, during a rally on the penultimate day of the electoral campaign, held at the Técnico Innovation Center.
“Lisbon cannot waste the opportunity to inspire Portugal, Lisbon needs you, these three parties need you, Portugal needs you in the Lisbon City Hall,” he advocated.
At the rally in the capital, Montenegro remarked that, “without disparaging” any territory, “Lisbon is indeed different, it is special,” the place from which signals are sent to Portugal and the world.
“A Lisbon of excellence is good for the country, is good for Europe, is good for the world. And that is why we, in the PSD, with the support of the CDS and the Liberal Initiative, bring to the voters of Lisbon excellence, a mayor of excellence, a politician, a citizen of excellence, someone who has an exceptional knowledge of the country, Europe, and international reality,” he argued.
The prime minister also challenged the people of Lisbon to ask themselves, in this final stretch of the campaign, “where there are solutions where the partnership between the City Hall and the Government can produce better results,” citing areas such as housing, security, or immigration, where he considered Moedas a visionary.
“Carlos Moedas was perhaps one of the Portuguese politicians who identified the issue earliest and pointed a way. And he said – when we were still nationally in opposition – to the government at the time: we cannot have this path completely open for anyone to come to Portugal, whenever they want, without any kind of control,” he highlighted.
Montenegro defended then that it is the current PSD/CDS-PP executive who is implementing “this policy that Lisbon and the mayor demanded.”
“Even against the will of those on the extreme left and the extreme right who earlier blocked us from having firmer rules to serve our community. Here is a good example of an experience that the Lisbon City Hall ended up spreading throughout the country,” he stated.
In Lisbon, he again emphasized the importance of recent governmental measures, such as tax benefits for rents up to 2,300 euros, as a way to moderate housing prices in Portugal.
“The people of Lisbon, better than anyone, know that only an intervention in the market that ensures price moderation, also in Lisbon, can have the effect we desire. Because those who do not have the courage to execute this plan with this breadth will continue to complain that the buildings in Lisbon are vacant,” he said.
The rally had the presence of PSD figures such as Manuela Ferreira Leite, Assunção Esteves, Leonor Beleza, or Carlos Carreiras, as well as CDS-PP’s Assunção Cristas and Ribeiro e Castro, and IL’s Carlos Guimarães Pinto, alongside ministers Fernando Alexandre and Graça Carvalho and the former PS government minister Elvira Fortunato.
From Lisbon, the first action of the PSD leader’s campaign day – on the day the government proposed the State Budget for 2026 -, Luís Montenegro moves to Sintra, for another rally alongside candidate Marco Almeida.
