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PS points to Fernando Alexandre as candidate for worst Education minister since April 25

RTP Notícias13 September 2026 at 13:40

The Socialist Party pointed to Fernando Alexandre as a candidate for the worst Education minister since April 25. The criticism was made by the parliamentary leader of PS, who considered this a well-founded assessment of the minister's performance.

The official was also subject to strong censure by PS, who considered it scandalous that hundreds of students are without a place in public education. This situation was highlighted as an example of the failures in the Education portfolio.

The comparison with all Education ministers since the post-revolutionary period of 1974 demonstrates the severity of the assessment made by the main opposition party regarding the current management of the sector.

Why this matters

Readers are directly affected by this situation because hundreds of students are left without access to public education, and the PS criticism represents a political attack on the PSD/CDS-PP Government of Luís Montenegro. This position follows the start of the school year, when the placement problem became more visible.

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