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Lisbon is the municipality with the most subscribers, 33,364, followed by Porto, with 13,280, and Coimbra, with 9,201, according to the map published by the Ministry of the Interior, in which the polling stations of each of the municipalities are reported.
The counties with the fewest records are Porto Moniz, in Madeira, with eight, followed by Nordeste, São Miguel, in the Azores, with nine, and Barrancos, district of Beja, with 14.
The leader of the Liberal Initiative was one of the first party leaders to exercise the right to vote. I was in Lisbon.
João Cotrim de Figueiredo left a call for a vote.
Catarina Martins also voted this Sunday. The coordinator of the Left Bloc appealed to the vote, recalling that democracy is fragile.
Compared to the 2019 legislatures, the number of people who registered to vote a week earlier quadrupled: two years ago it was 56,287, for these presidential candidates it was 246,880.
After the 2019 experience, early voting on mobility expanded from the district capitals to the headquarters of the municipalities, and the objective is simple: avoid large concentrations of people due to the covid-19 epidemic in the country.
In practice, the vote is distributed over two days, although the vast majority will vote next Sunday.
The record of subscribers led, for example, the municipality of Viana do Castelo to change the vote for a pavilion and install three polling stations.
To be able to vote early for the presidential election on January 24, it was necessary to register, either by letter or before the deadline that ends on Thursday.
In accordance with the rules defined by the General Directorate of Health for the elections, to go to vote, either today or next Sunday, voters must wear a mask and, preferably, a pen, for health and hygiene reasons.
You must sanitize your hands before and after voting. And table members must wear a mask and / or visor or goggles.
Voters are advised to respect the safe distance while waiting to vote.
Early voting on mobility was expanded by a law passed in parliament and can be held at the headquarters of each of the country’s 308 counties, rather than at the district headquarters, as was the case in the 2019 European and legislative elections .
The presidential elections, which take place in the midst of the covid-19 epidemic in Portugal, are scheduled for January 24 and this is the tenth time that the Portuguese have been summoned to elect the president of the Republic in democracy, since 1976.
The electoral campaign ends on January 22. Seven candidates are running for the elections, Marisa Matias (supported by the Left Bloc), Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (PSD and CDS / PP) Tiago Mayan Gonçalves (Liberal Initiative), André Ventura (Arrives), Vitorino Silva, better known as Tino de Rans, João Ferreira (PCP and PEV) and the PS activist Ana Gomes (PAN and Livre).
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 2,009,991 deaths as a result of more than 93.8 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 8,709 people died of the 532,416 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
