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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 abst ....
A guide to the elections By TPN/Lusa, in News · 24-01-2021 13:56:00 · 1 Comments What you need to know about the presidential elections in Portugal taking place today. More than 10 million voters resident in Portugal and abroad are called to vote in the elections today to choose the next President of the Republic. This is the 10th time that the Portuguese have been called to choose the President of the Republic in democracy, since 1976. +++ Number of voters +++ At the reference date of December 31, there were a total of 10,865,010 voters registered on the electoral roll, according to the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI). ....
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. ....
Nursing home residents head to the polls By Paula Martins, in News, Community · 22-01-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments As Portugal prepares to go to the polls on 24 January to vote in the Presidential elections, new measures to help the most vulnerable to cast their vote have been put in place. At the Centro Popular de Lagoa nursing home, smiles were seen through the windows of those who were exercising their right of vote. This new initiative to promote early voting in nursing homes is a new way of voting without leaving home for residents in nursing homes or for those who are infected and, as a consequence, can’t leave their houses. ....
Marcelo has support of opposition members By TPN/Lusa, in News · 20-01-2021 19:30:00 · 0 Comments A group of 22 socialists on 20 January announced their support for the presidential re-election of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, including mayors, three former ministers, Correia de Campos, Vieira da Silva and Pedro Marques, and the Azorean regional leader Vasco Cordeiro. In the text, with the title Vote to mobilise Portugal , to which Lusa had access, Marcelo s first term is praised, for respect and appreciation of the constitutional framework , for political stability and political and social dialogue , for the “defense of national interests”. “This is the main reason that leads us to trust that the candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa s continued affirmations of assuming the same attitude in ....