US EditionPortugal's interior minister resigns following criticism of flood management
- Portugal's Minister of Home Affairs Maria Lucia Amaral resigned due to criticism over the government's handling of deadly winter storms that killed at least 14 people in recent weeks.
- Amaral stated she no longer had the 'personal and political conditions necessary to remain in office,' according to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
- The storms have caused significant infrastructure damage across Portugal, affecting many citizens and leading to floods, landslides, and power outages.
- Amaral is the first minister to resign since the center-right government took power last May.
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Portugal's Interior Minister Maria Lúcia Amaral has resigned after the government faced growing criticism for its slow response to this year's winter storms, which have killed at least seven people, the AP reported Thursday.
In Portugal, Interior Minister Amaral resigned, after criticism of her approach to the effects of the storms of recent weeks.
The errors in the management of temporary riots that have destroyed a part of Portugal over the last few weeks have cost the position of the Minister of the Interior, Maria Lúcia Amaral, who resigned at the last hour of the night of Tuesday. Their competences will be assumed provisionally by the Prime Minister himself, Luís Montenegro, greatly weakened by the slowness with which his government reacted to the first blows of the Kristin Boresca, w…
Portugal's Interior Minister resigns over storm response
Portuguese Interior Minister Maria Lucia Amaral has resigned amid criticism from opposition parties and local communities over what they describe as the authorities' slow and failed response to devastating Storm Kristin two weeks ago.
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