Overview
- Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will temporarily oversee the interior ministry following Maria Lúcia Amaral’s departure.
- Official figures report at least seven deaths and roughly €4 billion in damage from the recent storms and floods.
- State broadcasters in Portugal and Spain have reported up to 13 deaths, hundreds of injuries, and thousands of evacuees.
- Successive winter systems—Kristin, Leonardo, and Marta—struck in quick order, inundating parts of Portugal and southern Spain.
- Opposition Socialist leader José Luís Carneiro called the resignation proof of government failure in its emergency response.