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This information was transmitted by himself to the Lusa agency, through a note in which he states that, “considering the current limitations, the statement can only be followed inside by two reporters with video images.”
To accompany the message “The video and audio signal will be available on the site,” there will also be a transmission on Youtube, the same note reads.
The space where Versalles is now located, on the corner of Rua da Junqueira and Calçada da Ajuda, right next to the Belém Palace, served as the campaign headquarters of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for the 2016 presidential elections.
About to turn 72 years old, on December 12, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was elected President of the Republic in the first round in the elections of January 24, 2016, with 52% of the votes cast.
A retired law professor, former PSD president and political commentator on television, he assumed leadership of the state on March 9, 2016.
On November 24, the President of the Republic scheduled the presidential elections for January 24, 2021.
Candidates must be formally submitted to the Constitutional Court no later than 30 days before the elections, on December 24, proposed by a minimum of 7,500 and a maximum of 15,000 voters, and the electoral campaign will run from January 10 to 22.
According to the law, if none of the candidates obtains more than half of the validly cast votes, excluding blank votes, a second vote will be held, 21 days after the first, between the two most voted candidates, in this case it will be the February 14th. .
The next President of the Republic will take office before the Assembly of the Republic on March 9, 2021, the last day of the current five-year term of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
In the current situation of the covid-19 pandemic, the head of state decreed this Friday a new extension of the state of emergency in Portugal until December 23, already with the perspective that this legal framework will be in force until January 7.
Last week, on the sidelines of a commemorative ceremony on December 1, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa told reporters that he has received “various pressures of various kinds, and in recent weeks even those who send signatures, collect signatures, send letters” , to reapply.
“But the decision is mine. The decision obeys one objective: it is to wait for a moment in which I must still intervene as President of the Republic within the framework of the state of emergency, only after that do I feel that I must make the decision and communicate it” . to the Portuguese, “he added.
On September 26 of this year, the PSD National Council approved a motion in support of the possible presidential reelection of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, proposed by the party leadership, with 87% of the votes in favor.
In turn, the PS decided that the orientation for the presidential elections will be the freedom to vote, without indication of the preferred candidate.
However, the motion approved on November 7 by the PS National Commission, the highest body among Congresses, refers to a “positive assessment” of the mandate of the current President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, although it also welcomes the candidacy of the socialist Ana Gomes.
