Presidential: Tino de Rans off face-to-face television

Vitorino Silva – Rans’s “Tino” – has already submitted the signatures to be a presidential candidate but will be excluded from the presence organized by the televisions (RTP, SIC and TVI), which will be broadcast from January 2 to 9.

The decision was already made between the information offices of the three stations even before the former president of the parish council of Rans (Peñafiel) presented the signatures (he presented nine thousand when he only needed 7,500).

The argument of the televisions is that, since the face-to-face confrontations will take place before the official campaign period (which begins on January 11 and ends on January 22, with elections on 24), it is possible to have editorial criteria that do not imply treatment . absolutely the same between all applications.

And so, only those candidates who, in one way or another, have some kind of correspondence with the parliamentary parties will be face to face: Marcelo is supported by PSD and CDS; Ana Gomes is a member of the PS and supported by PAN; Marisa Matias for BE; João Ferreira for PCP and PEV; André Ventura, for Chega; and Tiago Mayan, for the Liberal Initiative.

Obeying this criterion, Rans’s “Tino” will be out. However, as the leader of a party, the RIR (React, Include, Recycle) has no parliamentary representation. In 2016, he attended the presidential elections of that year and obtained about 152 thousand votes (3.28%), remaining only a few tenths behind the PCP candidate, Edgar Silva.

In the legislative elections of 2019, already leading the RIR, the result was, however, much worse: 35,400 votes, that is, 0.67%, lagging behind all parliamentary parties and also the Alliance and the MRPP . Tino didn’t even manage to win in the parish where he was president for eight years, Rans.