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A system explainer built from country metadata, linked institutions, office timelines, elections, and parties.
Portugal operates under a republic system in the current dataset.
Portugal is tracked in PoliticaHub as a republic, which gives the page a baseline answer to how executive and legislative authority are arranged.
Executive power is inferred here from current office timelines and the country's connected offices rather than a richer constitutional note.
No legislature name is recorded yet, so the institutional picture relies more heavily on connected offices and institutions.
The graph does not yet link many institutions for Portugal, so this part of the system view will deepen as institutional records expand.
90 parties are connected to Portugal, giving this system page a party-system layer rather than treating institutions in isolation.
The most recent linked election is Portugal 2024 Parliamentary Election, and it acts as the best available marker of how the present balance of power was produced.
