Portuguese government
| Government of Portugal | |
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| Portuguese: Governo de Portugal | |
Logo of the Government of Portugal
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| Overview | |
| State | Portugal |
| Leader | Prime Minister |
| Appointed by | President of the Republic |
| Main organ | Council of Ministers |
| Ministries | 17 |
| Responsible to | Assembly of the Republic |
| Headquarters |
Prime Minister's Official Residence Lisbon |
| Website | portugal |
The Government of Portugal is one of the four sovereignty bodies of the Portuguese Republic, together with the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic and the courts. It is both the body of sovereignty that conducts the general politics of the country and the superior body of the Portuguese public administration.
The Government of Portugal is also referred as the Government of the Portuguese Republic, the Portuguese Government or simply the Government.
The term "constitutional government" or simply "government" also refers to collective ministry in the sense of the team of ministers and its period of government under one Prime Minister.
The Government comprises the Prime Minister, ministers and secretaries of State (junior ministers). Certain governments also include one or more vice prime ministers and under-secretaries of State. Each minister usually heads a ministry and has assigned to him or her one or more secretaries of State.
After the elections for the Assembly of the Republic or the resignation of the previous government, the President listens to the parties in the Assembly of the Republic and invites someone to form a government.
The Prime Minister chooses the persons that he or she finds fit. Then the President swears in the Prime Minister and the Gov.
The Government has political, legislative and administrative functions. These include, among other things, the power to negotiate with other countries or international organizations, to submit bills to the Assembly of the Republic, to issue decrees and to take administrative choices
The government guides its actions by the governmental program and implements it in the State budget that is submitted to Assembly of the Republic each year, in the laws that it proposes, in the decrees that it issues in the Portuguese Council of Ministers, and in individual decisions made by its members.
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