Electoral Program
Programa Eleitoral
Partido Socialista (PS/ Socialist Party)
Immigration
Humanitarian Approach: Advocates for a fair, secure, and predictable implementation of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, respecting human rights and dignity.
Integration: Promotes inclusive policies to integrate refugees into the European labor market and supports local authorities working on the ground.
External Borders: Supports strengthening the EU’s external borders but rejects outsourcing border control or criminalizing humanitarian assistance.
Housing
Simplify and expand access to rental support, ensuring all families with high housing costs, including middle-class families, can receive help with rent payments.
Launch the REVIVE Housing Programme to quickly mobilise vacant state-owned properties for housing.
Implement financing measures from the Mais Habitação programme, offering mutual guarantees and interest rate subsidies to promote affordable rental housing by private developers and cooperatives.
Healthcare
Expand SNS to include dental and mental health services with new hires.
Improve pediatric screenings and support low-income families.
Develop primary care networks and day hospitals for chronic disease management.
Aliança Democrática (AD)
Immigration
Border Control: Proposes creating a National Foreigners and Borders Unit within the PSP (Public Security Police) after the dismantling of SEF (Foreigners and Borders Service).
Regularisation: Aims to reform the issuance of residence attestations by local councils, centralising registration and limiting the number of attestations per property.
Legal Immigration: Supports safer borders and more fair and selective admissions, while respecting asylum rights and combating illegal immigration and human trafficking.
Housing
Increase the supply of housing to lower prices and rents, including affordable and student housing through Public-Private Partnerships and EU funding.
Reduce taxes on construction and renovation, such as applying a lower VAT rate (6%) to make housing more affordable.
Support vulnerable tenants and simplify bureaucratic processes to speed up housing projects.
Healthcare
Incentives to retain and attract healthcare professionals, especially in underserved regions.
Expand multidisciplinary primary care teams and promote telehealth.
Invest €700M in building and renovating health centers nationwide.
Chega
Immigration
Strict Control: Proposes criminalising illegal residence and implementing a quota-based immigration policy according to labor market needs.
Security Focus: Wants to prevent entry of foreigners without a work contract or with criminal records.
Reinstate Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (SEF): Advocates for reversing SEF’s dissolution and restoring its original structure and powers.
Housing
Promote urban rehabilitation and sustainable housing, encouraging the renovation of abandoned buildings and the construction of eco-friendly homes with energy-efficient solutions.
Support home ownership for young people and low-income families through subsidised credit lines and tax exemptions (IMT and Stamp Duty) for first-time buyers under 40, on homes up to €400,000.Ensure fair access to housing for pet owners by reviewing legislation to protect both tenants with pets and landlords.
Healthcare
Use technology and AI to modernize and increase efficiency in the SNS.
Create integrated care models and Local Health Systems.
Reform laws to allow public-private partnerships and enhance staff security.