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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa once again conquered more than two-thirds of the voters and, according to the Aximage poll conducted for “Diário de Notícias”, “Jornal de Notícias” and “TSF”, 61.4% of the Portuguese admit to having voted the candidate. supported by PSD and CDS. According to this survey, the current President of the Republic has an advantage of 46 points over Ana Gomes, who arrives with 15.4% of the voting intentions.
In third and fourth place are the protagonists of one of the first presidential debates, this Saturday: André Ventura and João Ferreira. The candidate for Chega obtains 8% of the voting intentions, while the PCP deputy reaches 7.5%. Shortly after, Marisa Matias with 5.6% and Tiago Mayan, with 1.1%.
In addition to the voting intentions of the presidential candidates, Aximage asked the Portuguese for an assessment of the five years of Marcelo Rebelo Sousa. The rating of “good” was attributed by 53% of the respondents and 17% considered that the disposition was “very good”. In fact, Marcelo’s term convinced more Socialists, with 88% of PS voters giving a positive score, than Social Democrats, whose poll registered 81%. At this time, and in a similar way to what has been verified in the last polls, the current president of the Republic has the support of 68% of the Socialists for the next elections.
Ana Gomes, a member of the PS, has only a quarter of the socialist votes. The scenario extends to the Bloc, with Marisa Matias convincing less than half of the blocking electorate.
However, abstention can reach 61.5% and, according to “Jornal de Notícias”, one of the factors that helps to explain the demobilization is the response on the importance of these presidential candidates. Of those surveyed, 43% attribute “great” importance to the next elections, ten points less than in November. And 17% attributed “little” or “no” importance.
