Form your government

Pick a prime minister and a minister for each portfolio. The site tells you which legal rules your government runs into, whether it would have support in Parliament and what economic and cultural profile the mix of parties produces. These are estimates with rules and sources published below, not Veramundi’s opinions.

Ministries

How the site does the maths

Who can be picked

A closed list, so no names are made up: the prime minister, ministers and secretaries of state of the current government; the Portuguese people who already have a Veramundi page (party leaders, the President); every living former minister from the 1st to the 24th Government (1976 to 2025), taken from the same tables as the tree of past governments; the commentators in the Analysis section (anyone added there shows up here too); the 230 sitting MPs, from Parliament’s open data, with their parliamentary group; and the sealed list of public figures linked to politics (lexico/personalidades-v2.json): MEPs, regional governments, mayors of the district capitals, party figures, commentators and social partners, each with their party and the source of the link, or as independent when they have no public party link. A former minister carries the party of the last government they served in, and says which («PS, in the XXIII Government»), because there is no source for each person’s party today; their current office only appears when it was checked by hand against a dated source (ministers from 2015 onwards). Deaths come from Wikidata; people with no record there who left government before 1995 are left out until confirmed. Commentators have no party assigned and do not count towards the profile. Suggestions follow fixed rules, no AI: first whoever holds the portfolio today and their secretaries of state, then those who held it in earlier governments (most recent first), then members of the chosen prime minister’s party.

Incompatibilities

The site checks these rules and shows the article for each one. «Blocks» means the person cannot be in government without leaving the other office; «Note» means it is possible but has a cost. Political incompatibilities and refusals made in the press are not included.

Blocks: Is the sitting President. The President appoints the prime minister and the ministers and cannot be one of them. (Constitution, art. 133(f) and (h))
Blocks: Is a mayor. Government members serve exclusively: they would have to suspend or resign the mayoral mandate. (Law 52/2019, art. 6(1) and (2) (exclusivity))
Note: Is a Member of the European Parliament. The seat is incompatible with being a government member: joining means leaving it to the next person on the same list. (Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament, art. 7(1))
Note: Holds a seat in Parliament. Joining the government suspends it and the next person on the same list takes the seat; the party keeps it. (Constitution, art. 154(1))
Blocks: There is no prime minister: without one there is no government. (Constitution, art. 187)

Support in Parliament

Three signals, not a 0–100 score (a single number would mean inventing weights). 1. The seats of the parties with at least one minister, against the 116 majority out of 230. Independents count zero; an MP who joins the government is replaced by someone from the same list. 2. Who can bring it down: the government programme is rejected, and a censure motion passed, only by an absolute majority of MPs (Constitution, art. 192(4) and art. 195(1)). The site shows the smallest combination of outside parties that reaches 116. 3. The distance between the government parties on the CHES scales. The site does not say whether the President would accept the government: that is a political decision (art. 187), not a calculation.

Economic and cultural profile

Each minister takes their party’s position in the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES), an academic survey in which experts from each country place European parties. The site never rates people. Two scales from 0 to 10: economic (lrecon, 0 left, 10 right) and cultural GAL-TAN (galtan, 0 progressive and libertarian, 10 traditional and authoritarian). The result is the simple average of the filled portfolios, with the prime minister counting as one; next to it, from the leftmost to the rightmost party. The words come from fixed bands chosen by Veramundi:

Economic: below 3.5 left; 3.5 to 4.5 centre-left; 4.5 to 5.5 centre; 5.5 to 6.5 centre-right; 6.5 or more right.
Cultural: below 3.5 progressive; 3.5 to 4.5 moderately progressive; 4.5 to 5.5 centrist; 5.5 to 6.5 moderately traditional; 6.5 or more traditional.

The colour around each face and of each bubble on the chart is the party’s usual colour (the same as on /partidos), not a position. The chart background runs from red (left) to blue (right), the same colours as the map.

Your government stays yours

Nothing you pick is sent to the server. The government is kept in the address itself (so you can share it) and on this device. Veramundi does not count or store readers’ political choices.