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Rui Gomes da Silva said this Thursday that he personally assumes the result below expectations in the Benfica elections, won by Luís Filipe Vieira, stating that there was a “bipolarization” of the candidates for Wednesday’s election.
“To notice that there was a bipolarization in electoral terms and I personally assume that this result was not the one we expected and it was not the one we fought for. I am very happy that there is democracy and dissatisfaction with the results,” said the defeated candidate, after being known the numbers.
The candidate from List A, Luís Filipe Vieira, won the elections with 62.59% (471,660 votes), beating List B, headed by manager João Noronha Lopes, who managed 34.71% (261,574), and List D, the lawyer Rui Gomes da Silva, who stood at 1.64% (12,341).
The D-list candidate assumed the result was below his expectations and expressed the hope that the winner of the election would be able to “bring the European dream” to Benfica.
Rui Gomes da Silva revealed that he was on the phone with Luís Filipe Vieira to congratulate him on his victory and wish him “the best of luck.”
“The elections are over, the divisions are over. Now what is needed is to win the next game. The greatest joy for all those elected, congratulations on the result that Luís Filipe Vieira had, leaves no one doubts,” he said.
Luís Filipe Vieira, 71, who is already Benfica’s most senior president, was re-elected for the 2020-2024 quadrennium, after being elected for the first time 17 years ago, in 2003.
Wednesday’s elections for the presidency of Benfica broke the historical record for the most voted in history, with 38,102 voters, surpassing the record achieved in the 2012 suffrage, when 22,676 exercised the right to vote, in an act in which Vieira it was contested by Rui Rangel.
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