三级aa视频在线观看-三级国产-三级国产精品一区二区-三级国产三级在线-三级国产在线

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

Portuguese gov't resigns ahead of elections
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-12-12 10:48

The Portuguese government resigned on Saturday to avoid turf battles with President Jorge Sampaio in the run-up to snap elections in February.

Center-right Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes, in office less than five months, said his government would run the Iberian country in a caretaker status until the Feb. 20 vote.

Santana Lopes' Social Democrats could face a rout in the elections since they badly trail the opposition Socialists in opinion polls.

"We are defining our status. We are not running, we're staying at our post," the prime minister, flanked by his cabinet, said in a televised address.

Santana Lopes said his resignation along with his cabinet was a reaction to Sampaio's warning on Friday in scheduling the snap elections that the government would be "politically limited" ahead of the polls.

"It would be bad if the government were to hear the president's words and keep the same attitude," said Santana Lopes, who defended his government's performance.

He will meet Sampaio on Monday to formalize the resignations. Santana Lopes said he had canceled a summit meeting with French leaders set for Monday in France.

Sampaio dissolved parliament on Friday and set elections, saying instability in Santana Lopes' government threatened to damage Portugal, Western Europe's poorest country.

Santana Lopes's brief tenure was marked by a minister's resignation, slumping polls, a negative outlook from the Standard & Poor's credit rating agency, and allegations of government interference with the media.

Santana Lopes, then number two in the Social Democrats, took over as prime minister when Jose Manuel Barroso left Portuguese politics in July to head the European Commission.

Sampaio had agreed to Santana Lopes taking over without elections. However, he warned that Santana Lopes would be under scrutiny to follow Barroso's policies.

Instead, Santana Lopes loosened an austerity program that Barroso had designed to close a budget gap that breached euro currency zone limits in 2001.

Political analyst Antonio Jose Teixeira said caretaker status would clarify the boundaries within which Santana Lopes could act and reduced areas of potential conflict with Sampaio.

"With this done, Santana Lopes clearly has a status of caretaker, it's more self-limited, more defined during a time period until elections held," he told private TSF radio.

February's elections will usher in Portugal's fourth government since late 2001. Polls had been scheduled for 2006.



 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Fatal results of fuel fury in China

 

   
 

Doctor: Yushchenko poisoned with dioxin

 

   
 

Road accidents kill 96,870 this year

 

   
 

Guangdong's fourth nuke plant in pipeline

 

   
 

Nephew suggests Arafat's death unnatural

 

   
 

China, Thailand work out new anti-AIDS drug

 

   
  Doctor: Yushchenko poisoned with dioxin
   
  Insurgents try to derail Iraqi elections
   
  Bush seeks security chief As Kerik exits
   
  Likud, Labour begin coalition talks
   
  Portuguese gov't resigns ahead of elections
   
  Negotiators open Darfur peace talks
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 一级α一级α片免费观看网站 | 国产精品视频99 | 亚洲免费视频观看 | 亚洲欧美日韩中文综合v日本 | 热99re久久精品2久久久 | 91美女视频在线 | 一级成人毛片免费观看欧美 | 国内精自线一二区 | 欧美在线一区二区三区欧美 | 五月天婷婷综合网 | 久久国产一区二区三区 | 国内外精品免费视频 | 在线播放国产一区二区三区 | 国产精品69白浆在线观看免费 | 97视频免费公开成人福利 | 久久免费激情视频 | 真人一级毛片 | 2级毛片| 成人夜视频 | 国产精品乱码一区二区三区 | 国产高清精品一级毛片 | 一级一级特黄女人精品毛片 | 欧美亚洲综合另类在线观看 | 精品日韩在线 | 久久99国产精品免费观看 | 日韩 亚洲 制服 欧美 综合 | 成人男女啪啪免费观看网站 | 久久黄色片 | 亚洲第一页国产 | 91久久免费视频 | 精品视频免费在线观看 | 猫咪视频成人永久免费观看 | 麻豆视传媒短视频网站链接 | 在线免费看黄 | 激情久久久久久久久久 | 国产精品无码永久免费888 | 日韩在线观 | 在线观看欧美日韩 | 成人高清视频在线观看大全 | 日本69色视频在线观看 | 国语自产拍在线观看7m |