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Candidacies for the Presidency of the Republic are only valid after being formally accepted by the Constitutional Court, and after presentation and verification of a minimum of 7,500 and a maximum of 15,000 signatures of voters, up to thirty days before the date of the election, to be done. at the end of January next year.
Chronologically, it was the leader and sole deputy of the Chega party, André Ventura, the first to publicly present his intention to run for the highest office in the nation, on February 29, in Portalegre.
At the end of July, there were demonstrations of willingness to run for Bethlehem by the lawyer and founder of the Liberal Initiative Tiago Mayan Gonçalves and the president of the Democratic Republican Party (PDR), Bruno Fialho.
But it was in the week that the current head of state entered the last semester of his five-year period (today September 9) and that, under the terms of the Constitution, he lost the power of dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic that the issue of the presidential elections entered the political agenda.
On Saturday, MEP and BE leader, Marisa Matias, announced that she would run again in next year’s presidential elections, with a presentation scheduled for today at Largo do Carmo in Lisbon.
Marisa Matias is one of the ‘repeaters’ in the race to Belém among the already known names, after having achieved in 2016 the best result in the history of a candidate from the political blockade area, occupying third place, with 10, 12% of the votes.
On Tuesday, another candidate for Belém from five years ago, Vitorino Silva (better known as Tino de Rans), went to Radio Observador and then to Lusa, who will vote again, but intends that the dispute only take place in spring. , to protect the elderly, the group most affected by the covid-19 pandemic.
In 2016, the now leader of the RIR (Reacir Include Recycle) party obtained 3% of the votes and came in sixth place out of ten candidates.
On Thursday it will be the turn of the former socialist MEP Ana Gomes to present her candidacy for the presidency of the Republic at the Casa da Imprensa, in Lisbon, after confirming on Tuesday that she would advance.
Despite already having support within the PS – the former parliamentary leader and former socialist MEP Francisco Assis, and the leader of the minority current within the PS Political Commission, Daniel Adrião -, the diplomat has not guaranteed formal support of the Socialists, after António Costa recently said that he will have an attitude of “modesty” in the presidential elections and to refer the decision to the party organs.
On the same day, in Porto, another pre-candidacy will be presented to Belém: that of former CDS activist Orlando Cruz, who has made this announcement three times in the past, but who never formalized the process before the Constitutional Court. .
Finally, for Saturday the meeting of the Central Committee of the PCP is scheduled to decide the presidential candidate supported by the party, whose name has not yet been revealed, but with the communist secretary general, Jerónimo de Sousa, to exclude himself from the dispute. Belem. which already crashed in 1996 and 2006.
Only “there for November”, in his own words, will Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announce his decision on a possible re-election in the 2021 presidential elections, which he kept open throughout his term, and always after the elections were called. (which you must do at least 60 days in advance, according to the law).
On the center-right side, the leaders of the PSD and CDS-PP, Rui Rio and Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, have referred after this announcement to holding party meetings to decide if they support Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (five years ago), the two parties made voting recommendations for the former Social Democratic president).
The President of the Regional Government of Madeira, the Social Democrat Miguel Albuquerque, even admitted his own candidacy in May, and has not yet given this hypothesis as completely closed, saying that “it will depend on the positions and programs that the candidates, including Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, takes in relation to Madeira and the defense of its main proposals ”.
Five years ago, the Constitutional Court admitted the ten formal candidacies to the presidential elections, which was a record number.
The ten candidates for the presidential elections of January 24, 2016 were: Henrique Neto, António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Cândido Ferreira, Edgar Silva, Jorge Sequeira, Vitorino Silva (Tino de Rans), Marisa Matias, Maria de Belém Roseira, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (who won the first round with 52% of the votes) and Paulo de Morais.
Before, there had been, at most, six candidacies for the presidential elections, in 1980, in 2006 and 2011.
