Portuguese Political Parties Advertise For Early Legislative Elections

SAO PEDRO DO ESTORIL, PORTUGAL - JANUARY 20: A Socialist Party billboard campaign poster with a picture of its leader Pedro Nuno Santos and a PSD campaign poster with the face of Luis Montenegro displayed in Sao Pedro do Estoril roundabout for the Portuguese early legislative elections to be held on March 10, 2024, on January 20, 2024, in Sao Pedro do Estoril, Portugal. The leaders of the governmental Socialist Party, Pedro Nuno Santos, and the main opposition Social Democratic Party, Luis Montenegro, will lead their parties for the first time in this occasion. The Portuguese crisis began on November 7, 2023, when the Public Prosecutor's Office ordered a search that included the Prime Minister's office, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Action and the Ministry of Infrastructure, while investigating active and passive corruption and prevarication in relation to concessions for lithium mining in northern Portugal, a project for a green hydrogen production plant and a project for a data center. This led to the resignation of Antonio Costa and the fall of Portugal's XXIII Constitutional Government. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa decreed the dissolution of parliament on January 15, previously announced on November 09, 2023, and the calling of early legislative elections. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)