What Portugal searched for on 12 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 10:20: eletricidade (50K+), pedro passos coelho (5K+), loulé (5K+), ilha do farol (5K+), segurança viária (2K+), roubo de carro (2K+).

• eletricidade50K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  Eletricidade means electricity. We don't know why people started searching for it today in particular: no nationwide power cuts or new tariffs were announced on Monday. But electricity bills really are rising this autumn.

  From 1 October ERSE (the energy regulator) raised the price of electricity on the regulated market by €0.005 per kWh. For most households on the regulated tariff, the monthly bill has gone up by about 2.7%, and over 2026 as a whole prices have risen by 1.7% rather than the 1% promised at the end of 2025. The regulator blames high electricity prices on the wholesale market.

  On the Spanish and Portuguese wholesale market, a megawatt-hour cost an average of €147.6 between 1 September and 10 October — autumn prices were higher only in 2021 and 2022 — and last Tuesday the price went above €200 for the first time since 2022. People on the free market whose tariff is linked to the wholesale price will be the first to feel it. How to choose a supplier and get connected is explained in our guide How to set up electricity, water and internet when moving into a home in Portugal.

  Source: erse.pt

  

• segurança viária2K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  Segurança viária, or segurança rodoviária, means road safety. On Monday ANSR (the National Road Safety Authority) announced that, together with the GNR and PSP, it is running the "Viaje sem Pressa" ("Travel without rushing") campaign across mainland Portugal. Between 13 and 19 October the police will carry out five speed-check operations.

  This is the tenth of the eleven campaigns in the 2026 enforcement plan. According to ANSR, between 2023 and 2025 crashes caused by driving too fast for the road and weather conditions claimed 154 lives and left another 563 people seriously injured. The authority reminds drivers that sometimes you need to drive more slowly than the sign allows — in rain, in poor visibility, in heavy traffic and where pedestrians cross the road.

  How to find out whether you have a fine, and how to pay or contest it, is explained in our guide Traffic fines in Portugal: how to find out about them, pay and contest them.

  Source: ansr.pt

  

• pedro passos coelho5K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  Former prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho criticised the Montenegro government in an interview with SIC Notícias and said he is not running for any post; nothing changes for residents.

  Source: cmjornal.pt

• loulé · reservatório5K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  At Quinta do Lago in the municipality of Loulé, three Romanian workers, aged 21, 24 and 40, died while waterproofing a water tank at a private house; three others refused to go to hospital.

  Source: observador.pt

• ilha do farol5K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  On Saturday, on Ilha do Farol near Faro, the maritime and municipal police removed six men from Spain and Morocco from an empty council-owned house. Residents say the group broke down the doors of abandoned houses and drove fishermen away from the jetty; the police suspect a link to drug smuggling.

  Source: sulinformacao.pt

• roubo de carro2K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  On Sunday in Carregado near Lisbon, two armed men tried to steal a car from an 80-year-old driver in the street; the footage was shown on the news and the case has been passed to the criminal police (PJ). We don't know whether the searches are linked to this incident in particular.

  Source: cmjornal.pt

• luís neves · ricardo carrilho2K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  Interior minister Luís Neves has dismissed the ministry's secretary-general, Ricardo Carrilho: the two had clashed over €26 million a year for the SIRESP emergency communications network.

  Source: observador.pt

• cocaína · operação mare nostrum2K+ searches
  Published 2 November 2026, 05:03

  On Monday the criminal police (PJ) intercepted a speedboat 148 km south of Faro and seized about three tonnes of cocaine; one of the suspects died. Over the past week the GNR has seized almost four more tonnes off the Costa Vicentina.

  Source: sulinformacao.pt