"The elections took place a week ago. Since then I have had very few contacts with investors, but the contacts I have had do not express a great level of concern about the Portuguese political situation. The configuration of the election result does not seem to have given rise to much concern," Cristina Casalinho told reporters.

The president of IGCP stressed that "we have good empirical evidence" of the level of concern with the behaviour of Portuguese interest rates in the market.

"With the approaching Spanish elections we see that there has been a reversal of the relative position in terms of risk premium of the two countries. Portugal today is trading at a lower level, with lower interest rates than Spain, which, in a way, clearly shows the perception that the markets and investors had in relation to the electoral results. We can say that it was positive", said Cristina Casalinho.