The PSD/CDS-PP executive led by Luís Montenegro completes on Wednesday, July 10th, one hundred days since taking office at Palácio de Ajuda, on April 2nd.

Since then, several “packages” and “agendas” have been announced – in areas ranging from housing to corruption, immigration, health, public administration, and the economy – but not all of them have been translated into legislative initiatives so far, which has generated criticism of a lack of implementation and timing from the opposition.

The first decision of the XXIV Constitutional Government was admittedly symbolic: the change of the official logo used in the executive's communication, replacing elements such as the armillary sphere with shield, corners, and castles, which had been eliminated in the previous change.

In the following weeks, the Government approved decrees-law aimed at beneficiaries of the Solidarity Supplement for the Elderly – who now have a 100% reimbursement for medicines, saw their benefit increased by 50 euros per month and their children's income eliminated as an exclusion factor – and, on May 14, he announced the first decision that he said had been articulated with the main opposition party, the PS: to build the future Lisbon international airport in Alcochete, which will be named after the poet Luís de Camões.

Since then, several packages of measures have been presented and approved by the Government in the Council of Ministers, such as “You have a future in Portugal”, in the first thematic and decentralized Council of Ministers (in Braga) dedicated to young people, “Construir Portugal” ( on housing), the “Health Emergency and Transformation Plan”, the “Government Action Plan for Migrations”, the “Plan +Aulas +Sucesso” (to prevent students from being left without classes for prolonged periods next year school), the “Anti-corruption Agenda”, the first phase of public administration reform and a set of 60 measures “to accelerate” the Economy, including the promised reduction in IRC by 4 points throughout the legislature.

Corruption

From the corruption package, for example, of the 20 measures presented, no decree or law proposal has yet resulted, in a discussion that should go through a possible parliamentary committee proposed by PSD and CDS-PP.

It was mainly in the area of ​​taxation, housing, and young people that the Government sought to legislate in these little more than three months and, after its proposal to lower the IRS was changed by parliament (ending up with a replacement text being approved with votes against by PSD and CDS-PP), the executive chose to present legislative authorizations in cases in which it cannot decide by decree.

Of the eight bills that the Government submitted to the Assembly of the Republic until Friday, three were in the form of authorization with the aim of allowing the executive to legislate on the exemption of IMT and IMI for young people, revoking the extraordinary contribution on accommodation local (these two have already been approved) and change the young IRS to a maximum rate of 15%.

On May 21, the Government reached an agreement with seven teachers' unions to restore frozen service time, and, in early June, with the main union of judicial employees. Negotiations with security forces may be at risk after the prime minister stated that he was unavailable to increase the value of the agreement already proposed (300 euros per month).

Replacements

These first hundred days were also marked by replacements in some top public administration positions, with the resignations of the executive director of the National Health Service Fernando Araújo (replaced by Lieutenant Colonel António Gandra d'Almeida) and the president of the Social Security Institute Ana Vasques, or the dismissals of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia ombudsman Ana Jorge, the national director of the PSP José Barros Correia or the administration of the Agency for Administrative Modernization.

The prime minister rejected that it was “a purge based on party criteria” and responded to opposition criticism with “reams of dismissals” in the previous socialist executive.

In these one hundred days of the XXIV Constitutional Government, the Secretary of State for Mobility, Cristina Dias, has been targeted by the opposition for having received compensation to leave CP and, shortly afterwards, join a regulatory entity.