What's the potential impact of the 2025 Portuguese election on the Golden Visa program and pathway to citizenship?

The lobbyists make a good point here - which given how PT never respects “90-day deadlines” anyway, suggests to me there’s little chance we’ll see the final regulations until after summer hols:

The legislative phase is now closed. The next phase is the regulation of the law. The Government has 90 days from publication to make the necessary amendments to the Portuguese Nationality Regulation. Since the law was published on 18 May 2026, the deadline should fall around 16 August 2026, which is “political holidays”. There may be a chance that the regulation either goes into September or [they] fast forward to pass it on before August.

Nothing in the story below that avid readers of this forum don’t already know, but fwiw:

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