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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 dependi...

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, incumbent President of Portugal, has been re-elected for his second five-year term. As usual, Portugals 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, understand...

Presidential campaign begins By TPN/Lusa, in News · 11-01-2021 19:18:00 · 2 Comments The second day of the presidential election campaign will focus on the central and southern areas of the country with candidates taking part in initiatives dedicated to topics such as labor rights, the environment or higher education. The electi...