“Everything is fine, it was an episode of cardiac arrhythmia, an issue that afflicts me from time to time, very sporadically,” Luís Montenegro told journalists when he left the hospital.

The Prime Minister left the Santa Maria hospital in Lisbon at around 8:40 pm on Friday, after being admitted at around 1:00 pm and being referred to a cardiologist.

“I'm fine and I want to reassure the Portuguese people,” he said.

The Prime Minister said that, having had symptoms this morning, “there was no alternative” but to go to the hospital.

“Everything is calm and I will rest over the weekend and resume my normal schedule next Monday,” he said, in a brief statement to journalists who were at the hospital door.

Shortly after 7:00 pm, the president of the Board of Directors of ULS de Santa Maria, Carlos das Neves Martins, gave Lusa information about this brief hospitalisation of the prime minister.

Today, the Prime Minister had a public agenda in the morning in Lisbon, but cancelled the one he had planned for the afternoon in Alcobaça (Leiria), having been replaced by the Minister of Economy, Pedro Reis.

In the morning, Luís Montenegro chaired the meeting on the Parque Cidades do Tejo project, where he participated in the meeting with the participation of the municipalities involved, having made statements to journalists when he left, around 12:30.

On Monday, Luís Montenegro's agenda has three points: the “Land Defence Industry Day”, in Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto district), the visit to three Family Health Units in Santa Maria da Feira (Aveiro) and, in the afternoon, he will preside over the Superior Council for Internal Security, in Lisbon.