Portugal's interior minister steps down after fatal accident

FILE PHOTO: Portugal's Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita, speaks during European Foreign Ministers and Interior ministers Council in Brussels, Belgium, March 15, 2021.Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's Interior Minister stepped down on Friday nearly five months after his driver was involved in a car crash that killed a road worker while the government official was on the back seat.

Eduardo Cabrita, who joined Prime Minister's Antonio Costa's cabinet in 2015, when the Socialist party came to power, has been urged to resign since the fatal accident.