Lisbon, Dec. 24, 2025 (Lusa) - TV debates in the country’s presidential election campaign, a computer glitch blocks goods containers at the country’s ports, Sporting beat Vitoria de Guimaraes 1-4 to keep up the chase behind FC Porto in the football league and the government remains confident that the budget surplus will be at least 0.3% this year dominate the headlines this Wednesday, Christmas Eve, morning

Público:

- ‘House prices have already risen 27% since the government's first package of measures’

- ‘Almada Negreiros. Restoration of murals began in Varinas and will reach Nau Catrineta’

- ‘Balance sheet. 2025, the year of the shift to the right in parliament and local authorities’

- ‘Obesity. Financing 90% of medicines would cost 954 million’

- ‘Cars. Have you bought an electric car? Find out if you are entitled to a tax incentive’

Jornal de Notícias:

- ‘Registered killer murders 13-year-old boy and blows up ex-partner's house’

- ‘Rush to the shopping centre for last-minute purchases’

- ‘Health. Chaos in hospitals with accident and emergency departments closed and surgeries postponed’

- ‘IT. New system blocks goods containers at ports’

- ‘Gaia. Parents owe 1.8 million in school meals’

- "Porto. No bids in tender for the Ruby Line of the metro‘

- ’Cinema. Daniela Melchior shines in Hollywood‘

- ’‘V. Guimarães 1 - Sporting 4. Lions' rout in Berço leaves everything unchanged at the top of the League’

- ‘Christmas in prisons has the traditional cod, but above all longing and memories’

Diário de Notícias:

- ‘Island of Madeira has more family doctors and nurses per inhabitant than the mainland’

- ‘Festival in Lisbon. Ukrainian music from Litá and Christmas rituals reborn between paganism and Christianity’

- "Presidential election TV debates. Antonio Seguro did not attack and brings more support to the left than Marques Mendes to the right. Jorge Pinto was the surprise, according to political analysts‘

- ’Economy. Government reinforces confidence with a budget surplus of “at least” 0.3%‘

- ’Homicides in America. Cláudio Valente. “Nothing suggested it was going to happen” or “the signs were all there”?‘

- ’Antagonism. Crisis in Venezuela exacerbates tension between Brazil president Lula and Argentina president Milei‘

- ’Paulo M. J. Afonso. 1604 map reinforces that the discoverer of California was Portuguese, says researcher‘

- ’Right of reply from the Israeli ambassador to Portugal‘

- ’Film series. Hitchcock. The adventures of Good and Evil'

Correio da Manhã:

- ‘Registered killer murders child and blows up house’

- ‘Lisbon. Monster rapes 93-year-old mother-in-law’

- ‘Until September. State surplus of 4.7 million’

- ‘Joana Amaral Dias out of the race for the presidency’

- ‘Flu and festivities cause drop in blood donations’

- ‘Paedophile lawyer. Endopure Unipessoal's right of reply’

- ‘V. Guimarães 1 x Sporting 4. Lion Conquers Castle’

- ‘Argentinian international. Prestianni opens new cycle at Benfica’

O Jornal Económico:

- ‘Nuno Amado ex-CEO of BCP bank to head state holdings bank, Banco Portugues de Fomento, Advisory Board’

- ‘BYD increasingly ahead of Tesla in sales’

- ‘System failure leaves containers stranded in national ports’

- ‘President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ratifies agreement with the United Kingdom that eliminates double taxation’

- ‘Government remains confident: budget surplus will be at least 0.3%’

- ‘Visabeira's takeover bid for Martifer receives green light from Brussels’

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