In an article in the 10th of July 2009 edition of the Diário Económico on the legal obstacles to the promulgation of Diplomas in the final stages of this government’s legislature, João Vieira de Almeida expresses his belief that, as regards public works projects, the government should not be limited in its actions given that “a government’s legitimacy only runs out at the end of a legislature and there should be no prior period in which its regular legislative activity is suspended as this would bring the country to a halt”.