Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: Jorge
Fernando Branco de SAMPAIO
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Pedro SANTANA LOPES*
- Assembly: Portugal has a unicameral parliament called the Assembly
of the Republic (Assembleia da Republica) with 230 seats.
* Prime Minister Pedro SANTANA LOPES and his government resigned
11 December 2004, but will stay on in a caretaker capacity
until the February
2005 elections. |