What Portugal searched for on 11 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 07:20: explosão (5K+), multa de trânsito (2K+), gaspar barbosa borges (2K+), tribunal (2K+), licença parental (1K+).

• multa de trânsito2K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  Multa de trânsito means a traffic fine. We don't know why people started searching for it on Sunday in particular, but this week the government showed what it plans to do about fines in 2027. The draft budget submitted to parliament on 9 October provides for more SINCRO speed cameras on the roads and for electronic tickets, so that fines arrive faster and are less often dropped because the time limit for enforcing them has run out.

  The budget does not raise the fines themselves. The state expects to collect €120.8 million, 7.8% more than this year, because more fines will actually end up being paid. It also promises to bring the GNR traffic police (Brigada de Trânsito) back onto the roads and to carry out unannounced checks. This was first announced back in April, but there is still no start date.

  To find out how to check whether you have a fine, how to pay it at a discount and how to contest it, see our guide Traffic fines in Portugal: how to find out about them, pay them and contest them.

  Source: novumcanal.pt

  

• licença parental1K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  Licença parental inicial is paid leave to care for a newborn. On Thursday 8 October, the PS and the PSD submitted a joint proposal to parliament: five months (150 days) on full pay, even if the parents do not share the leave. At present, four months are paid in full.

  The leave would be six months (180 days) on full pay if the second parent takes at least 30 consecutive days or two blocks of 15 days, and seven months (210 days) at 90% of earnings, again if it is shared. The father's compulsory days off after the birth would rise from the current 10 to 28, and single parents would get six months on full pay with no requirement to share.

  This is not law yet: the proposal has to be approved by the committee and then by the full parliament, and the money for it is being set aside in the 2027 budget. Details are in our news story.

• explosão5K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  At about 16:00 on Sunday, an explosion and fire hit a house in Lanheses, near Viana do Castelo. A woman of about 40 was taken to São João hospital in Porto with serious burns, and three other people suffered minor injuries. The GNR is investigating what caused the explosion.

  Source: ominho.pt

• gaspar barbosa borges2K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  A court has frozen more than €27 million in assets, including bank accounts, houses and cars, belonging to Braga builder Gaspar Borges, owner of the company ABB, which supplied concrete for Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's house in Espinho. The Public Prosecutor's Office regards these assets as unexplained.

  Source: cmjornal.pt

• tribunal2K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  "Tribunal" (court) is a general word. On Saturday the courts were dealing with several high-profile cases at once, including a VAT fraud case involving hundreds of millions of euros (Operation Hermes). We don't know which one people were searching for.

  Source: observador.pt