From the state budget to the constitutional review, many are on the table at this new legislative session. At a time when the Left presses the government to raise the cost of living, the HR begins by discussing five government bill proposals, almost all on the debureaucratisation of the state.
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16/09/2026
by
Tomasia Sousa, Lusa
ANDthe first plenary of the second legislative session of this Parliament, which will be marked by the discussion of five proposals for government law, almost all on the debureaucratisation of the state, is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
The annual Internal Security Report (RASI) will also be discussed at the first plenary session this afternoon.
Even today the proposal for parliamentary inquiry by the Left Block on the implications of the Ministry of Education's national examinations process will be examined.
Already tomorrow, on the 17th, the plenary will be filled with a topical debate required by Free on online gambling and betting in Portugal.
For the last week of September, on the 23rd, the conference of leaders scheduled a topical debate required by the PCP on the beginning of the school year.
On the 24th, there will be a potential agenda of the Aquida Parliamentary Group still without a known theme. On the 25th, health initiatives from the Government and the PSD will be discussed. For this same day, the PS scheduled a draft resolution on measures to be adopted in relation to the cost of living.
Also on September 25, in the plenary of the Parliament we discuss a diploma of the Liberal Initiative regarding the transparency of the operation of RTP and a parliamentary assessment requested by the Free on the organic of INEM (National Institute of Medical Emergency).
On the last day of September, the debate on the government's legislative authorization to revise the urban lease regime is planned. A bill of the Party also goes up to plenary Arrives regarding the pensions of former combatants and an initiative of the PSD regarding the mandatory use of the helmet for those who guide electric scooters.
Still on the last day of September, initiatives by the CFP on the protection of access to housing and the CDS regarding the autonomy of hiring teachers by private and cooperative education.
What else are you gonna schedule the legislative session?
Among the hot themes of this return to Parliament will also be the budget discussion for 2027, o parliamentary inquiry of Aquis to Minister Luís Neves and opening of constitutional review.
The next biweekly debate with the prime minister, Louis Montenegro, it will take place on october 9, the last working day of the deadline for the submission of the proposal from the State Budget Government for 2027.
In accordance with the budgetary framework law state budget proposals must be formally delivered to the Assembly of the Republic by 10 October, but this year this day is on a saturday, which is why the deadline will extend until monday, 12.
In addition to the first biweekly debate of this legislative session, the preparatory debate of the next European Council will also take place on 9 October.
More than the issue of the Budget, the main political priority of the Enough is to press the resignation of the Minister of Internal Administration. His motion of censure for the government was not supported by any other party in Parliament. But the Enough also plays in another front. It required, in a potentative way, a parliamentary inquiry into the performance of Luís Neves as national director of PJ.
At this start of the legislative session, the parliamentary Left's benches have mainly criticised the government's action towards the rising inflation and rising cost of living, but also in relation to situation in the health and education sectors.

