Lisbon, Sept. 12, 2025 (Lusa) - The fallout from the Glória funicular tragedy, the possibility of the far-right Chega party getting more votes than any other party, and the sentencing for Brazil's former president for mounting an attempted coup d'état are all on the front pages of Portugal's newspapers this Friday.

 Expresso:

- "Choice of cable with plastic core at the root of the accident"

- "Even classic brakes could have stopped the lift"

- "Maintenance says it inspected the cable fixing 18 hours before"

- "Tragedy will be a mandatory topic in local council debates"

- "Children wait 4 years for orthopaedic operations"

- "There are more than 100 complaints of domestic violence a day"

- "Dan Brown: With the Internet we're like children playing with grenades"

- "PSD trade unionists ready to take to the streets against labour laws"

- "Fugitive from Vale de Judeus: Only those who didn't want to leave didn't get out"

- "Minister fails to promise daughter of Ukrainian killed by SEF"

- "PS wants opposition out of municipal executives"

- "Classes start with more teachers missing"

- "Chega recorded meetings to denounce critics"

- "Portugal helps Kiev"

- "Marcelo and good things"

- "Bugalho vs Núncio"

Diário de Notícias:

- "Barómetro DN/Aximage.26.8% [Chega], 25.9% [AD], 23.6% [PS] Chega overtakes AD and is ahead in voting intentions for the first time"

- "Sexual abuse of children: in 92 per cent of cases, the perpetrators are people close to them"

- "Glória funicular tragedy. European standard provides for an advance of 21,000 euros for each death, but Portugal doesn't apply it"

- "Attempted coup in Brazil. Bolsonaro convicted of all the offences he was accused of"

- "Presidential. Livre decides in referendum whether to support Catarina Martins"

- "Charlie Kirk. Martyr for some, personification of evil for others in an increasingly divided country"

- "Poland. Warsaw government sends 40,000 troops to the border"

Correio da Manhã:

- "Ruler hides luxury home. Millionaire project in Golegã by the Secretary of State for Agriculture"

- "Property belongs to a company with two partners, him and his wife"

- "Benfica. Bernardo's return more difficult with Lage"

- "Benfica-Santa Clara"

- "Sporting. Reinforcements cut profit to 20 million"

- "Average life expectancy in Portugal rises to 82.7 years"

- "Credit. Warning of rising housing instalments"

- "Charlie Kirk. Donald Trump's friend killed"

- "Under fire. Ventura confuses Citizens' Party with burger festival"

- "Bolsonaro condemned for coup d'état"

- "Controversy. Minister promotes PSD “boy” to super-assistant"

- "Guarda. Boy makes child sex abuse film"

- "PSP figures. 14 house burglaries a day"

Público:

- "AIMA orders expulsion of immigrants with Portuguese children"

- "USA. Charlie Kirk's death raises fears of a spiral of violence"

- "Premiere. Dino D'Santiago's opera sung in immigration waiting room"

- "Setúbal. Audit says Dores Meira made illegal expenses"

- "Sexual harassment. António Capelo denies accusations and files criminal complaint"

- "Brazil. Supreme Court condemns Bolsonaro for coup d'état"

- "Textile. Polopiqué has 420 creditors to negotiate recovery"

- "Presidential elections. Gouveia e Melo, Ventura and Mário Ferreira at private lunch"

Jornal de Notícias:

- "Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison for coup"

- "Armed group robs ship in the Algarve and takes cocaine hidden in containers"

- "Local elections. Mayoral candidates want metro line to Valongo"

- "Porto. Faculty of Medicine wants to reduce minimum marks to ten"

- "Municipalities. Loss of students in higher education is greater in big cities"

- "USA. Manhunt for the murder of a young political activist allied to Trump"

- "Benfica. Lage believes Bernardo Silva will return to Luz, whoever the president is"

Nascer do Sol:

- "Ventura will move on to Belém"

- "Interview with António Mendonça, president of the Order of Economists: Europe's position in the negotiations with the United States was deplorable"

- "Local elections. Alexandra Leitão's letter to the people of Lisbon"

- "Bica and Lavra funiculars should never run again"

- "TVI. New grid bets heavily on fiction"

- "Selection. Proença and Orbán exchange pennants"

- "Rui Moreira rules out candidacy"

- "Supreme Court condemns Bolsonaro"

- "Carina Quaresma. New President for Gender Equality argues that RASI hides violent crime"

- "Família Apolónia: We have the best supermarket in the world and it's the customers who say so"

Negócios:

- "Teixeira Duarte and new shareholder team up at Lufthansa factory"

- "Eurozone goes further this year only to slow down soon after"

- "Interview with Rutger Bregman: I distrust the philanthropy of most rich people"

- "#TheMostPowerful 2025. #01 [Donald Trump] wants to put America into a new “golden age” and has opened a tariff war. His economic policy and hostilisation of the EU have a significant impact on Portugal"

- "Local elections. X-ray of the town halls: where do the most people live and where do they earn the most?"

- "Fitch should raise Portugal's rating and lower France's"

- "Newrest forces redundancies at Cateringpor"

O Jornal Económico:

- The agricultural revolution drop by drop"

- "Vanguard's tourism projects already have three buyers"

- "Football. Investment in reinforcements aggravates the liabilities of the big teams"

- "Portuguese market escapes the shock of the Glória funicular"

- "Charity and military hospitals operate outside the rules"

- "State forces adjustment to Novobanco contract"

- "Employers confident that 2026 budget will be approved"

- "Angola opens up electricity transport to the private sector"

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