Economic school: Portuguese PSD reform-liberal Euro-orthodoxy — austerity-and-competitiveness response to 2001 inherited 4.4% deficit (breaching Maastricht 3%). Left-right axis: centre-right. Dated policies: "Programa de Estabilidade e Crescimento" March 2003 implementing austerity; Lei de Estabilidade Orçamental (Law 91/2001) operationalisation; IVA VAT rate increased from 17% to 19% June 2002 and from 19% to 21% June 2005 (successor-government continuation); civil-service wage freeze 2002-2004; public-sector recruitment freeze; parte variável nas pensões temporary discipline; labour code recodification Código do Trabalho 27 August 2003 (Lei 99/2003) — integrated labour-law unification; education reform; private-sector modernisation of SOEs; Azores Summit 16 March 2003 Iraq alignment (with Aznar, Blair, Bush); Barroso resigned 6 July 2004 to become European Commission President. Popularity: 2002 election PSD 40.2% won after Guterres resignation; coalition stable but austerity unpopular; succeeded by short-lived Santana Lopes caretaker government. Coherence: high — clear Euro-orthodoxy reform mission.
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