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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 depending on the amount of early votes received in each parish, explained João Tiago Machado, specifying t...

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 soundb...

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 election campaign runs from 10 to 22 January, with the country living under restrictive measures due to th...