# Assembly rejects Montenegro’s confidence motion after Spinumviva Date: 2025 ## The fact On 11 March 2025 the Assembly of the Republic rejected Moção de Confiança n.º 1/XVI/1.ª, the confidence motion tabled by Prime Minister [Luís Montenegro](/people/luis-montenegro) after the Spinumviva family-consultancy controversy. Reuters and BBC recorded 142 votes against and 88 in favour, with no abstentions. ## Context He was still prime minister that morning. [Costa](/people/antonio-costa) and [Ventura](/people/andre-ventura) are unresolved. He later swore the XXV Government on 5 June 2025 after the 18 May 2025 snap. 11 March 2025 confidence rejection. Stored as one 11 March 2025 Fact. Keep Assembly rejects Montenegro’s confidence motion after Spinumviva on 2025-03-11 separate from neighbouring 10 March 2024 election, 2 April 2024 oath, 11 March 2025 confidence loss, 18 May 2025 snap, and 5 June 2025 re-oath. The Portuguese prime minister can swear a cabinet, table a confidence motion, and resign after it fails. He does not sit as the President, as Chega, or as the Public Prosecution Service. A 2 April 2024 oath is not authorship of every later circular. Sharing a legislature with Chega is not a reason to drop 11 March 2025. ## Evidence and sources Assembly of the Republic carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is the owned PSD-PM driver: a completed collapse on a confidence vote the PM tabled after Spinumviva. ## What is established and what is not Established: The Assembly rejected the confidence motion on 11 March 2025. Reuters and BBC recorded 142–88. Not established: A Spinumviva conviction, or a unique later seat integer as size. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Sharing the vote with opposition benches is not a reason to drop 11 March 2025.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Assembly rejects Montenegro’s confidence motion after Spinumviva, not a later speech about Assembly rejects Montenegro’s confidence motion after Spinumviva. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Assembly rejects Montenegro’s confidence motion after Spinumviva on 2025-03-11 is not a licence to treat every later Assembly of the Republic communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Assembly rejects Montenegro’s confidence motion after Spinumviva into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He tabled the motion and lost it. Sharing the vote with opposition benches is not a reason to drop 11 March 2025. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Luís Montenegro: https://factrail.ai/people/luis-montenegro ## Drivers - Montenegro PSD PM: https://factrail.ai/drivers/montenegro-psd-pm ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portugals-government-faces-likely-defeat-fresh-collapse-confidence-vote-2025-03-11/ - https://debates.parlamento.pt/catalogo/r3/dar/01/16/01/099/2025-03-11 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pt-montenegro-confidence-2025