The Government of the Portugal Guardian announced on Saturday its intention to expel around 18,000 foreigners living in the country without a license or legal authorization.
António Leitão Amaro, Minister of the Presidency, said that the central-law government will return approximately 18,000 notifications to illegal migrants asking them to leave.
According to Amaro, officials will start next week by asking some 4,500 undocumented migrants to leave voluntarily within 20 days.
The announcement comes in the preparation of the country's first general elections, which will be held on May 18.
Last week, Amaro was quoted in the local press saying that “Portugal must review its expulsion system, which does not work”.
“It is important to realize that Portugal is one of the three European countries that executes the least deportations of people who ordered to go to violate the rules, including for security reasons,” he said.
The scintillage of this month was called in March by Prime Minister Luis Montenegro after his minority government, led by his conservative social democratic party, lost confidence in Parliament and withdrew.
What led to the collapse of the government?
The Montenegro, which took power less than a year ago, was accused of a potential conflict of interest concerning a firm of family lawyers.
The firm would have received payments from a company with a major game concession granted by the government.
To “dissipate uncertainty”, Montenegro called for early elections. Instead, the opposition parties have joined forces to overthrow it.
His government, a bipartite alliance, had been in power for less than a year and had only 80 seats in the current 230 -seat legislature.
An overwhelming majority of opposition legislators, led by the socialist socialists and Chega, which together contain 128 seats, promised to vote against it and followed.
The next survey presents the country with 10.6 million people in months of political uncertainty, just as it is in the process of investing more than 22 billion euros in EU development funds to reorganize its economy.
Political analysts also noted with concern the growing European tide of populism in the country, the far -right party of Chega reaching third place in last year's elections.
Since the transition to democracy in the wake of the 1974 embarking revolution, which ended a dictatorship of four decades, Portugal has not experienced political disorders as it now sees.
ADVERTISEMENTThe disappearance of the minority government in March marks the worst fate of political instability in 50 years of the country's democracy.
