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2023 in Portugal
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Events in the year 2023 in Portugal.
Incumbents
- President: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
- Prime Minister: António Costa (Socialist) (resigned 7 November)
Events
- 16 February: The Portuguese government announces the end of the Portugal Golden Visa investor program, as well as a ban on new licenses for Airbnbs, due to a severe housing shortage and rising rents.[1]
- 28 March: 2023 Lisbon Ismaili Centre stabbing: Two Portuguese women are killed in a stabbing attack at an Isma'ilism Shia religious centre in Lisbon. Police shoot the suspect, an Afghan man, in the leg at the scene, before arresting him and taking him to a hospital.[2]
- 1-6 August: World Youth Day 2023[3][4]
- 8 August: 2023 Iberian wildfires: In Portugal, 7,000 hectares of forest have burned down and 1,400 people have been evacuated.[5]
- 7 November: Prime Minister António Costa resigns over a corruption probe.[6]
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Deaths
- 10 January – Hermenegildo Candeias, 88, Olympic gymnast (1960).[7]
References
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