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Pedro Santana Lopes

Pedro Santana Lopes

Portuguese lawyer and politician (born 1956)

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  • Jun 22

    Montenegro unveils sovereign wealth fund, railway privatization and justice reforms at PSD congress

    Prime Minister Luís Montenegro closed the PSD congress with a package of measures including a new sovereign wealth fund to take equity stakes in strategic sectors, a pilot privatization of the Cascais railway line and an acceleration of administrative and tax courts.

  • Jun 21

    Pedro Santana Lopes returns to PSD at congress, refuses to apologise for 2018 departure

    Former Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes re-joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) at its congress in Sangalhos on Friday night, delivering a speech that lavished praise on Luís Montenegro's government while pointedly refusing to apologise for leaving the party in 2018.

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