I did some more digging, and here’s what I could find re: specific 2025 campaign statements w.r.t. years and time-in-country for citizenship:
AD (PSD + CDS)
- The party making the most definitive comments on this topic is the AD - the one likely to form the next government, and propose new legislation.
- Early-April comments by António Leitão Amaro: “We have to re-look at the requirement of Portuguese citizenship process. Specifically the minimum period of residency and the presence in the national territory.”
- From the AD’s electoral programme statement, page 143: “Reviewing the requirements for granting Portuguese nationality, particularly with regard to foreign citizens, extending the minimum time of residence and effective presence in national territory…”
- I only found indirect AD comments re: 10 years, e.g. in O Globo: “A proposal presented at one of the Executive meetings was to extend the current five years of residency required to apply for a visa to a period of ten years. This was confirmed by a source who attended the meeting.”
Liberal Initiative (IL)
- Minority AD government above will probably need IL’s votes to get things done.
- IL electoral programme proposes a “revision of the nationality law based on clear, fair and stable criteria” and “According to an official source from IL, cited by Lusa, the objective is to ‘increase the number of years to obtain nationality’ after a ‘discussion and review of the criteria’ and a ‘consensual debate’” (see DN article and Portugal Pulse article)
- I couldn’t find any specific number of years that IL was seeking.
Chega
- Chega’s 2025 programme advocated for “limiting immigration,” but I didn’t find any explicit reference to tighter requirements for Portuguese citizenship by them. They seem to like keeping things vague.
- …despite DN Brasil saying Chega had “a similar proposal” to the AD’s, I (and Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT) could not find Chega specifying how many years for citizenship they’re proposing.