The government of Portuguese caretaker plans to drive around 18,000 foreigners living in the country without permission, a minister announced on Saturday when the national election was drawn up.
Presidential Minister António Leitão Amaro said on Saturday that the center-right government would illegally issue around 18,000 notifications to the people in the country to leave them. The minister said the officials will start next week by asking around 4,500 foreigners to voluntarily go within 20 days.
According to the website of Portugal’s messages, immigrants will receive the first notification of notifications today. Referring to reports, the website adds that if they are not adhered to, it “is subject to an exclusion process”.
On Monday, the News website reported Portugal News that the agency for integration, migration and asylum (Aima) had started the process.
On Sunday, Portugal Pulse News Site reported that Prime Minister Luis Montenegro denied that the process was accelerated by the upcoming election on May 18, and said it was part of the process that started in June last year.
He also refuted the opposition’s criticism of a “trumpization” of his campaign, an indication of the border reviews of US President Donald Trump.
“This is not about violently removing someone. It is about notifying the person and the person can make an appeal. If they cannot meet the requirements, they have to leave,” said Montenegro according to Portugal Puls.
Rising of the right
Portugal, which has around 10.6 million people, has had a number of minority governments as traditional competitors for power, the social democratic and the socialists of the middle-left socialists in recent years.
One of these parties is the Chega party that the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communication Due to their politics and rhetoric, notes were often referred to as “radical populist populist party. It supports anti-immigration, with the focus on reducing illegal immigration and strengthening border security”.
The country was involved in the increasing European flood of populism. The Chega party took third place in last year’s elections.
“These results confirm the growing success of the radical populist playbook,” including “amazement against immigration”, wrote Filipe Calvão, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Chicago, on the website of the Geneva Graduate Institute last year.
Portugal will hold an early parliamentary elections on May 18. Montenegro called a self -confidence in parliament in March according to his minority government, led by his conservative social democratic party, and returned.
Anti-immigration
The right rights of Portugal tightened some immigration rules last year, which reflects the attempts in other parts of Europe to ward off the rise of the right right.
The restrictions in the past year included a widespread mechanism, which is described as a “manifestation of interest” and which enabled it for years to change non-EU migrants without employment contracts after paying social security to Portugal after payment of social security.
An increase in the “digital nomads” had contributed to a growing counter reaction against immigrants due to an increase in living and living costs, the Telegraph reports. According to Fortune, real estate prices in Lisbon, the capital, have increased by 30 percent in the past five years.
In the past month, the Portuguese turmoil arrested several ultra rights demonstrators after summarizing the celebrations for the 51st anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, which ended a fascist dictatorship in the city center of Lisbon.
Extremed right groups such as Ergu-Tet (ascent), Habas Corpus and Grupo 1143 had appointed a rally that had banned the urban authorities to protest a growing number of immigrants before the parliamentary elections.
Around 1.5 million migrants live in Portugal, roughly tripled the number a decade ago. According to the integral human development website, most migration traditionally flew from Portuguese -speaking countries such as Brazil, Cape Verde and Angola.
According to the OECD, Brazil, India and Italy, the three most important nationalities of newcomers in Portugal were in 2022, and in 2023 the number of first asylum seekers rose by 31 percent. The majority of the applicants came from Gambia, Afghanistan and Colombia, reports the OECD.
Around 14 percent of taxpayers are migrants, reports Reuters, who contribute more than 1.6 billion euros (2.5 billion US dollars) to the economy in 2022, while he received around 257 million euros ($ 401 million) social services.
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