Portuguese State Council Meeting After Prime Minister Resignation

LISBON, PORTUGAL - NOVEMBER 09: Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa addresses the country to announce snap elections next March 10, 2024, and the PM continuing in functions, at the end of the meeting of the Portuguese Council of State convoked after the resignation of the Prime Minister Antonio Costa in Belem Presidential Palace on November 09, 2023, in Lisbon, Portugal. The resignation of the Prime Minister, which brought down the entire government and the dissolution of Parliament are different constitutional institutions. The former has already happened and has been accepted, by the President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. But Prime Minister Antonio Costa said he would stay in office until he was replaced and implied that the President could still consider the date on which his resignation takes effect. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)