(2 Apr 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon, Portugal - 02 April 2024
1. Portugal’s new Prime Minister Luis Montenegro arriving for ceremony
2. Close of Montenegro
3. Outgoing Prime Minister Antonio Costa arriving for ceremony and greeting Montenegro’s wife
4. Pan from Montenegro to his cabinet of ministers
5. Wide of session
6. Montenegro approaching to be sworn in
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luis Montenegro, Prime Minister of Portugal:
“I, hereby signed, affirm solemnly by my honour that I will fulfil with loyalty the role assigned to me.”
8. Tilt up of Montenegro signing
9. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa signing
10. Wide of session
11. Various of Foreign Affairs Minister Paulo Rangel being sworn in
12. Mid of ministers during session
13. Wide of president speaking
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portuguese President:
“With a parliamentary representation as the one obtained it is important for the government to know what it can rely and on what it must achieve, it can rely on the President’s support and solidarity – that was never disputed with its predecessor - but it does not rely with the majority support in Parliament and needs to build it.”
15. Close of Portuguese flag
16. Wide of Montenegro speaking
17. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luis Montenegro, Prime Minister of Portugal:
“It is with great honour and responsibility that I take upon the role of Prime Minister.”
18. Wide of Montenegro speaking
19. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luis Montenegro, Prime Minister of Portugal:
“The elections of the past 10th March have shown the will of the Portuguese people in political participation and political change, our purpose is therefore to respect and fulfil that change. Our democracy, that celebrates later in this month of April its 50th anniversary, is alive.”
20. Mid of Portuguese President during Montenegro’s speech
21. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luis Montenegro, Prime Minister of Portugal:
“Today it is up to each and every single political player, to show their maturity and commitment with the will of the Portuguese. From the side of the government we will be, as promised, focused on providing solutions to the problems of the people and the promotion of the national interest.”
22. Media
23. Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa greeting Montenegro
24. Wide of greetings at the end of ceremony
STORYLINE:
Portugal’s new center-right minority government took office on Tuesday, days after its first test in parliament exposed both the pitfalls and the opportunities it faces following a radical right populist party’s sudden surge in support in a recent general election.
Only one of the 17 ministers sworn in at a ceremony in Lisbon’s 19th-century Ajuda National Palace has previous top-level government experience.
Even Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, who promised a Cabinet made up of specialists from outside the usual political circles, has never sat in government before.
"We will be, as promised, focused on providing solutions to the problems of the people and the promotion of the national interest,” Montenegro said at the swearing-in ceremony.
Some key members of the Cabinet have spent time in Brussels and are familiar with the European Union’s corridors of power. They include Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel and Defense Minister Nuno Melo, who were European lawmakers from 2009.
Portugal, a country of 10.3 million people, is receiving more than 22 billion euros ($23.6 billion) through 2026 from the EU to fuel growth and enable economic reforms.
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