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The first words of the winner’s speech were addressed to all the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic in Portugal.
“On November 2, the day of the evocation of the victims of the pandemic in the Palace of Belém, there were 2,590 deaths. It is now 10469. For them, as well as for the non-Covid dead, in these almost 11 months of Calvary, here goes my, our first emotional thought.“The re-elected president began by saying.
For Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, today’s election demonstrates “renewed confidence in the President of the Republic in office”, and he feels “deeply honored and grateful.”
But the Head of State drew another conclusion from tonight’s results: that the Portuguese want a president “who respects pluralism and difference, a president who never surrenders to social justice.”
“I am well aware that now renewed trust is anything but a blank check. Whoever receives the mandate must remain the president of each and every Portuguese. A close president, a stabilizing president, a President who unites, who is not one of the good, against the others, the bad. That he is not a factional president, “said Marcelo, in an apparent allusion to the far-right candidate André Ventura.
The Portuguese do not want “radicalization and extremism”
The President of the Republic said he had deleted two “very clear” messages from tonight’s election results. The first is that the Portuguese “want more and better in proximity, in convergence” and in managing the pandemic.
The second is that it must “do everything possible to persuade those who can draft laws to consider reviewing, before new elections, what has been concluded must be reviewed to adjust situations such as the one experienced” in this pandemic.
Still based on the results, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa believes that the Portuguese “don’t want an endless pandemic, an economic crisis with no end in sight, an aggravated impoverishment, a setback compared to other societies ”, nor “a radicalization and extremism in people, in attitudes, in social and political life”.
Rather, they want “a pandemic overcome as quickly as possible, a recovery of jobs and income,” as well as “combat poverty and exclusion and a stable political system with strong, sustainable and credible governance.”
“They want constitutional democracy to respond to the dramas and anxieties of the Portuguese, but a democracy that respects the Constitution, a democratic democracy, not an illiberal democracy, that is to say, not democratic ”.
Marcelo wants to “make forget xenophobias, exclusions, installed fears”
Still in his victory speech, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa recalled that “in three years we will be in the half century of April 25”, considering “Inconceivable that if we cannot say that we are not only much freer, but also much more developed, much more equal, much fairer, much more supportive than we were at the beginning of the road ”.
Before these three years, “we must rediscover what we lost in the pandemic, redo the broken ties, break the barriers erected, overcome the multiplied loneliness, make forget xenophobias, exclusions, installed fears”, Defended the president.
“We have to recover and value inclusions, actions, affections, citizenships emptied by poverty, dependency, distance every day.”
For Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, everything begins in the fight against the pandemic. “If the pandemic lasts longer and deepens, everything else we want will get worse and last longer,” he explained. For that reason, “The most urgent of the urgent is now called fighting the pandemic”.
“We have to do everything that depends on us, but even everything, to stop and then reverse a process that is putting dramatic pressure on our healthcare structures,” he added.
President guarantees “total institutional solidarity” with the Government
For this fight against the pandemic to be solid, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa guarantees his “total institutional solidarity with the Assembly of the Republic and the Government, trying to involve the greatest number of parties and economic and social interlocutors in a desirable collective conjugation ”.
“It continues to be a challenging irony of fate that this mission, which is mine, which is yours, which is ours, can continue to count as re-elected President, with someone who belongs to a risk group, symbolizing that we are all united, the youngest and the less young ”, declared the winner of these elections.
The result of this election night was not surprising, with all previous polls pointing to the reelection of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The biggest doubt was among the following places on the podium.
The race was fought between Ana Gomes and André Ventura, but ended up being the independent candidate to win the silver medal, with 12.97 percent of the vote. Chega’s candidate was chosen by 11.90 percent of the voters and, instead of fulfilling the promise to resign if he was surpassed by Ana Gomes, rather, it will place the party on whether or not to continue with the current project.
In fourth place in these elections was João Ferreira, the candidate supported by the PCP, with 4.32 percent of the votes, followed by Marisa Matias, supported by the Bloco de Esquerda, with 3.95 percent, Tiago Mayan (Liberal Initiative), with 3.22, and Vitorino Silva (independent), with 2.94.
