Thing is no one cares about them funds, including the fund managers. You underestimate the mentality.
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I suppose you’re right — as long as they continue collecting their management and other fees, there isn’t much incentive for them to be concerned.
Gouveia e Melo (the leading candidate) rejects anti-immigration rhetoric even if he loses votes: “Immigration is not a problem, it’s an opportunity”.
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A well managed fund should still do ok, even with a net loss of assets. Especially one that invests stocks and bonds that can be bought and sold efficiently, and one which does not depend on GV investors for the bulk of its investable assets.
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Any idea of the odds of the president not signing the nationality law and referring to constitutional court?
Hopefully quite good. Certainly the Nationality Law changes should be contentious enough to ask for the Court’s opinion.
You can help make that happen by writing to Sr. Presidente!
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NG is eerily quiet today. 
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I wrote the president, and also got an email from our attorney this morning saying they expect the nationality law to be approved tomorrow and to enter into force the next day. They are going to submit our nationality application earlier than the 5 years (we’re less than a month away from it being 5 years), I think as sort of a hail Mary pass to keep us in the game.
They also mentioned (for the first time) a possible lawsuit to “protect your legitimate expectations, since you applied under different legal conditions that are now changing with this new law.”
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This is surprising Jim. I don’t know why but I was fully expecting the President to have some issues with the bill and refer it to the TC. To hear that your attorney expects it to become law by Wednesday has made my 
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Who knows? Just passing along some information!
Still can’t believe it might come to this. 
Best of luck with your early application.
I’ve heard this from others too, trying to lock an application date while not compliant in all respects. I wish you good luck!
You already have all your criminal background checks etc all ready and apostilled?
Yes - same! Considering concerns were raised publicly by both PS and Jorge Miranda, it would be stunning not to send it to the TC.
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He’s certainly not going to promulgate it overnight
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President has some time to chew it over, yes… 20 days after receiving the decree from the Assembly to either promulgate a law (sign it into effect) or refer it to the Constitutional Court for a review.
I know the AD got this debate deemed ‘urgent’, but not sure if the resulting legislation will also be declared so. For urgent decrees, those 20 are shortened to 8 days
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PÚBLICO seems to think OE2026 will pass for sure, regardless of Chega. So if you were counting on another PT government collapse to save us from the Nationality Law changes, well…
Budget debate begins with Chega undecided but approval guaranteed
The 2026 State Budget (OE2026) will begin to be debated in general terms this Monday [27th] at 3 p.m. in the Assembly of the Republic, with the document’s viability guaranteed by the abstention of the PS and the guaranteed votes in favor of the PSD and CDS-PP.
…With the abstention of 58 PS deputies, the viability of the 2026 State Budget is guaranteed. On the left, the PCP and BE have already announced that they will vote against it and criticized the Socialists’ position.
If I’m not mistaken at least 23 MPs can take it to the CC as well, do they not expect PS deputies to take it to the CC? I had the impression that either the president or the PS deputies will take it to the CC.
I highly suggest getting a 2nd opinion from another lawyer. I’m just a guy on a forum, but that sounds like horrible advice to tbh. If you are so close to having a legit application, i wouldn’t throw that away - the sense of a lot of people here is that promulgation might take a while and that the law is more likely than not to be referred to the Constitutional Court to be reviewed, which would buy you the time you need.
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