That statement added that this was designed to bring about a compromise “for the governability of Portugal" and that they would await Socialist Party notification as to a time for a meeting due on Tuesday.


This comes in the wake of a series of events that saw the Socialist Party Secretary General António Costa tell journalists that a planned Political Commission meeting would be postponed due to the lack of this same document.


Costa furthermore termed any decision as to whether his party would prop up a return to office of the coalition or attempt to set up a left-wing coalition government as “at this moment, premature.”


The coalition partners won the largest percentage of votes in Portugal’s general election but did not attain an overall majority of seats and since convened by the president to form the next government.


Accepting that the aforementioned document might reach the party over the course of Monday, Costa had earlier added that “but we will still not be in a position to make a final evaluation" of the ongoing consultations with other political parties.


The Secretary General then said that only having concluded that process would the party be in a position to make an internal decision.


"We cannot vote for the already announced motions against the government without having formed the alternative conditions necessary to establishing a government” said Costa on leaving a meeting with Left Bloc.


However, there was no such reticence from Left Bloc spokesperson Catarina Martins who, following the aforementioned meeting, told journalists that the Passos Coelho led government was over.


"As far as it depends on the Left Bloc, the government of Passos Coelho and Paulo Portas is over. We today are in a position to have a government and a budget within the Portuguese republican constitution after these four right-wing years that never knew how to respect the fundamental laws of the country," said Martins.


The spokesperson then went onto promise the party would comply with the vote of confidence that the electorate had shown the Bloc, which saw its parliamentary representation rise from 8 to 19 members of parliament.


In turn, the Socialist Party leader had referred to the meeting as “highly interesting” in an expression used following other such meetings with other parties while adding there were points of “convergence.”