The first meeting of the Council of Ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government will be held on Wednesday in Lisbon, it was announced today.
At the end of the meeting, there will be a press conference at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Lisbon.
Today, 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 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.
President swears in the Prime Minister and ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government