Overview
- Seguro took the constitutional oath in Parliament, with a 21-gun naval salute and the national anthem marking his investiture.
- Roughly 600 guests attended, including Spain’s King Felipe VI and the presidents of Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste.
- Outgoing president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa walked from the Belém residence to the chamber and sealed the handover with an embrace and a formal seat swap.
- A former Socialist Party leader, Seguro won the Feb. 8 runoff with about 3.5 million votes, defeating Chega leader André Ventura.
- As the inauguration unfolded, Chega displayed a Lisbon billboard pairing Brazil’s Lula and Angola’s João Lourenço with the line “The fault isn’t 500 years of Portugal, it is your corruption,” prompting a supportive post from Eduardo Bolsonaro and renewing debate over colonial reparations that Portugal says are not the subject of any formal process.