Polls open in Portugal
The polling stations for the presidential elections opened today at 8am.
According to the spokesman for the National Elections Commission (CNE), João Tiago Machado, polling stations opened across the country without major problems and without any reported cases of boycotts.
The main complaints were related to “complaints from people in queues, waiting for the counting of early votes”, and the situation is now normalised.
The waiting time in these cases varied depending on the amount of early votes received in each parish, explained João Tiago Machado, specifying that there were places that had “zero early votes” to count, but there were others that had many, such as Cascais, that will have had more than five thousand votes.