Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, gave the Ministry of Internal Administration (equivalent to MSW) guidelines for the obligations of persons holding high positions in government to disclose whether they belong to Masonic lodges.
Informed the Lisbon daily "Diario de Noticias', guidance on the verification link politics with Freemasonry were included in the government report on the matter so-called Ongoing. The document contained a suspicion against a group of people from the former management of the Portuguese secret police and Ongoing media concern about attempts to control other media.
There is evidence that the Portuguese Freemasonry still has strong influence in the security services - said on Tuesday in parliament deputy of the ruling Social Democratic Party, Teresa Leal Coelho.