Parliament to vote on Euthanasia today By TPN/Lusa, in News · 29-01-2021 10:44:00 · 0 Comments
Parliament will vote on 29 January, on whether or not to decriminalise medically assisted death after an unsuccessful attempt at postponement at the last minute by the PSD party.
The law, the result of the projects approved, in general, in February 2020, should be approved with the vote of the PS, BE, Greens, Liberal Initiative and some deputies of the PSD. The PS and PSD gave their deputies the freedom to vote as they choose.
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.
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 ahead in polls By TPN/Lusa, in News, Sport · 22-01-2021 14:29:00 · 0 Comments
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is predicted to win the presidential elections on 24 January in the first round with 58 percent and the socialist Ana Gomes appears in the second position, with 14.5 percent, according to an ISCTE survey / ICS for Express and SIC.
In terms of losses and gains compared to the previous poll, Marcelo, supported by PSD and CDS, drops eight points, Ana Gomes rises 1.5 and André Ventura has 3.5 more points.
On the left, Marisa Matias, supported by BE, and João Ferreira, supported by PCP and Verdes, have 6 percent in voting intentions. In relation to the previous survey, Marisa loses one percentage point, the same as Ferreira.
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