国际英语资讯:Portugals new government inaugurated_时事

国际英语资讯:Portugals new government inaugurated

LISBON, Oct. 26 -- Portugal's new government was sworn in on Saturday morning by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa here in the Ajuda National Palace.

Prime Minister Antonio Costa, together with 69 members of the government, including 19 ministers and 50 secretaries of state, attended the inauguration ceremony.

Antonio Costa, who is also general secretary of Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), formed yet again a minority government after leading his party to a victory in the national elections earlier this month and winning 108 seats in the 230-member Assembly of Republic. Most of the members of the previous government kept their portfolios.

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During the inauguration ceremony, Rebelo de Sousa said the previous government has surpassed all the expectations, but warned that the new Costa government will face more challenges.

"The task that awaits you is not easy. Today's Europe and the World are different, more complex, and more uNPRedictable," said the president, warning that the Portuguese expectations are now higher, with the new government having fewer resources to meet those expectations.

Acknowledging that Costa's previous government achieved most of the goals it has set itself, Rebelo de Sousa alerted the new government for the existence of some goals that were left to achieve, namely, the campaign against corruption, the durability of growth and the balance of external accounts, the achievement of more pay equity and a bigger access to social infrastructures and systems.