The Brazilian Senate approved, on September 2, the Multilateral Convention on Social Security of the CPLP, now lacking ratification by the President, announced today diplomatic source.
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16/09/2026
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Lusa
A convention, signed at the 20th ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), held in Dili, Timor-Leste, on 24 July 2015, and approved in 2023 in Benguela, Angola, during the Angolan presidency of the organization, aims to ensure the social protection of migrant workers in the Member States, covering invalidity benefits, old age and death.
Portugal, Timor-Leste and Cape Verde – in order to complete the process – are the Lusophone nations that have already ratified the convention and made their deposition with the executive secretariat of the organisation.
Thus, and according to the Diário da República de Portugal, “in accordance with Article 23, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the following month after the date on which three States (...) have deposited their respective instruments of approval, ratification or acceptance, the Convention being in force since 1 January 2026”.
Brazil is on the way to becoming the fourth nation to finalize the process, now lacking ratification by the head of state – and the country is currently in a period of electoral campaign for presidential scrutiny, the first to be held on October 4 – and the deposition of the document at the headquarters of the organization, with the executive secretariat.
In addition, he recalled the source of the Brazilian diplomatic mission to the CPLP in statements to Lusa, “Brazil and the other Member States – with the exception of Guinea-Bissau, suspended from the community after the November 2025 coup d’état – signed the Administrative Agreement for the Implementation of the CPLP Multilateral Social Security Convention during the 31st Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Community, held in Dili, Timor-Leste, on 19 August 2026”.
“ Completed after years of negotiation, the agreement establishes the procedures necessary for the implementation of the convention, strengthens the social protection of CPLP citizens and ensures the portability of social security rights of workers in a situation of mobility in the community space ", stressed the Brazilian mission.
In addition to the convention, and according to the information available on the “site” of the Senate agency consulted by Lusa, also on February 2, a bill was approved in the Senate plenary, which allows “Brazilians in professional activity in Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Mozambique and Portugal (...) to add the periods of contribution in these countries to ensure access to social security benefits [social security benefits]”.
The CPLP, which this year marked 30 years, is composed of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.