Hello, welcome to Business Delhi on the BBC World Service with me, Antonio Fernange.

Today we are in Portugal, as the country heads towards its third general election in just four years.

And there is one issue which seems to be on voters and politicians' minds.

I think immigration for the first time in this campaign was a major topic.

The current caretaker government has recently tightened immigration laws,

going against years of Portugal's famous open-door policy towards foreigners.

But the Prime Minister insists this is not about shutting borders.

In Portugal, the great power outage was the lack of migration policy.

We're putting the house in order.

But despite an ageing population and high numbers of young people living the country, Portugal's economy has been growing.

Now we think around 30% of workers in the tourism industry are immigrants.

Without them, we can't make it work.

So, will immigration policy be the turning point in this election

and will tighter controls affect Portugal's economic growth?

That's all coming up in Business Daily from the BBC.

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We have been growing relatively well during the last year, but we know that in the next year,

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