Prime Minister José Sócrates has presented his new government to the President, Cavaco Silva. It is a single-party minority socialist government. In the recent legislative election, the socialists emerged as the largest party with 97 of the 230 seats in the parliament, but they lost their absolute majority. There have been negotiations with opposition parties, but a formal coalition agreement was impossible to reach.

The composition of the government is available here.

The next element of the process is governed by Art. 192 of the Constitution, which states:

1. Within at most ten days of its appointment, the Government shall submit its Programme to the Assembly of the Republic for consideration, by means of a Prime Ministerial statement.
2. In the event that the Assembly of the Republic is not in full session, its President shall obligatorily call it for this purpose.
3. The debate shall not last for more than three days, and until it is closed, any parliamentary group may make a motion rejecting the Programme, and the Government may request the passage of a confidence motion.
4. Rejection of the Government’s Programme shall require an absolute majority of all the Members in full exercise of their office.

So, the government does not need a majority in favour of its programme, it just has to avoid a majority against.