Five more years for Marcelo By Paula Martins, in News · 29-01-2021 01:00:00 · 1 Comments
The Presidential elections in Portugal last week saw Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa winning in all counties, Ana Gomes becoming the most voted for woman in the Portuguese history of presidential elections and the far-right achieving a never before seen result in Portugal.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was re-elected President of the Republic last Sunday with a reinforced vote, representing the third highest percentage in presidential elections in Portuguese democracy, 60.70 percent of the votes, the second highest in a re-election.
The 72-year-old retired professor, who ran for head of state, formally supported by PSD and CDS-PP parties, was re-elected with approximately 2.5 million votes, in an election with an abstention of 54.55 perce
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, incumbent President of Portugal, has been re-elected for his second five-year term.
As usual, Portugal s pluralistic political climate saw candidates from left to center to right present themselves but the re-election of who the Portuguese refer to endearingly as Marcelo came as no surprise. The Portuguese President, despite the fact that his power base used to be the Social Democratic Party (political right), of which he was President between 1996 and 1999, understands the psyche of the Portuguese people and over five years synchronised every action with the soundbites that they wanted to hear and the actions that they wanted to see.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa officially running for Presidency By TPN/Lusa, in News · 11-12-2020 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
“I will not escape my responsibilities”, guaranteed Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the current President of the Republic who is also running for the new election scheduled for 24 January 2021, insisting on following the same vision that he had in 2016: “Portugal as a platform between cultures, civilisations, oceans and continents”.
The current President, known as the President of the “people and hugs”, announced his decision in the same place where in 2016 his campaign centre had been located, in a pastry shop in Belém.
“I am running as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, because we have a pandemic to face, because we have an economic and social crisis to overcome, because we ha