Portuguese general elections 2025

Analysing procurement policies from party manifestos on the run up to the Portuguese General Election (III)

Chega (ID) The far right party manifesto has a few policy proposals for public procurement, mostly the same as last year. Its main novelty here is the protection of national industry against unfair competition and using public procurement to support national companies. How? By privileging them when tendering. As far

Analysing procurement policies from party manifestos on the run up to the Portuguese General Election (II)

PS (Socialists) Looking into this year\s Socialist Party manifesto was a fun exercise for someone living in the UK. It is very easy to gauge what was the inspiration for their approach of having five strategic missions. It comes straight from Labour's 2024 manifesto and the comparisons

Portuguese general elections 2025

Analysing procurement policies from party manifestos on the run up to the Portuguese General Election (I)

Like (just) last year, I am once again going to look at the party manifestos of the various parties running in the Portuguese General Election to be held in a couple of weeks. The focus of this analysis is exclusive to their proposals for public procurement - a hot topic