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

Following dates are relevant to this thread, as the Annual Budget wrangling will preoccupy the PM and opposition with something that has to get sorted this autumn:

  • The 2026 State Budget will be submitted to Parliament by October 10th, then to Brussels,
  • and is expected to be voted on in general terms at the end of the month.
  • If approved, as everything indicates, there will be a vote on the specifics at the end of November, with the final overall vote in the last week of that month.

Update - specific 2026 Budget dates:

  • October 9: OE 2026 delivered to Parliament
  • October 24: Assembly of the Republic hearings with Ministers
  • October 27 and 28: general debate on the Government’s State Budget proposal for 2026 in parliament
  • November 27: final global vote
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