Portugal's largest teachers' union has filed a complaint with the attorney general's office seeking a criminal investigation into the electronic grading of national secondary school exams, alleging that teachers were pressured to score tests without all necessary materials and that thousands of exam items remained unclassified even after results were published.
Fenprof Secretary-General José Feliciano Costa said the union believes a criminal offence may have occurred because educators were instructed to grade incomplete responses. He noted that some teachers were still receiving items to correct on the morning results were released, and argued the classification process is "inevitably compromised". The union also rejected claims of a shortage of graders, saying available teachers were simply never contacted.
The union called for Education Minister Fernando Alexandre's resignation, accusing him of losing control of the process and turning it into an exercise in improvisation. Alexandre acknowledged errors but assured they had been corrected and would not recur in the second exam phase.