New immigration rules? "Trump in Portugal is called Luís Montenegro"

PS MP Isabel Moreira criticized the proposals for changes to the nationality law announced by the Government this Monday, after a meeting of the Council of Ministers.

"Real country? No. Immigration. Mixing it with nationality law, which is a different topic. Creating a 'need' for an 'urgent' change in the law. It is not included in any study" , wrote Isabel Moreira on X (ex-Twitter).

In the same post on the social network, the socialist compared the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, whose term is being marked by several controversial anti-immigration measures.

Real country? No. Immigration. Mixing it with nationality law, which is a different topic. Creating a “need” to “urgently” change the law. This is not included in any study. Trump in Portugal is called @LMontenegro_PT . The regime is shaken. Debates about. The non-problems. The imposed agenda.

— Isabel Moreira (@IsabelLMMoreira) June 23, 2025

"Trump in Portugal is called Luís Montenegro. The regime is shaken. Debates about non-problems. The imposed agenda" , concluded the PS deputy.

The Government met this Monday in the Council of Ministers to approve changes to the nationality law and announced that it wants to introduce several changes to the law, including the possibility for judges to decree, as an additional sanction, the loss of nationality for citizens naturalized for less than ten years who commit certain "serious crimes" with prison sentences of more than five years.

This was just one of four major changes to the nationality law announced by the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro, at the press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting.

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Catia Carmo with Lusa | 15:53 ​​- 23/06/2025

However, the minister argued that this loss could only be decreed as an "accessory sanction, always decreed by a judge" and for highly serious crimes.

"Not just in the abstract, but in specific cases in which the criminal judge has ordered an effective prison sentence of five years or more, in a range of crimes, which also include crimes against the State - such as espionage, terrorism, treason -, but also serious crimes against people", stated Leitão Amaro, giving as examples "homicide, rape, very serious offences against physical integrity, situations of extreme violence and aggression against people and their freedom in national territory".

A government source told Lusa that this additional sanction will only be included in the nationality law and will not imply changes to the Penal Code.

The date considered for this sanction will be the criminal act and not the judicial conviction, added the same source.

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