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The draw has already been made to define the place of the presidential candidates on the ballot and the first is citizen Eduardo Batista. The lieutenant colonel confirmed to the Observer on Monday that only sent 11 signatures when he formalized his candidacy in the Constitutional Court (TC), but due to the procedures of the law, the military are, for now, on an equal footing with the other candidates. Only on January 4, the TC will report the failures of the applications and then the candidates have until 11 am to rectify the situation. Despite the need for 7,500 signatures to be able to vote, Eduardo Batista anticipates that he will not collect more: “I want to be a candidate and go to the next stage with only eleven proposals,” he tells the Observer.
One of the candidates, the Observer knows, questioned the Ministry of Internal Administration (which manages the electoral process) about whether the de-officialization of Eduardo Batista as a candidate until the 11th would change the order of the voting, but the answer was that this bulletin it would be like that until the end “and that the votes in Eduardo Batista, in the event that he abandons the candidacy or does not have his candidacy regularized until the 11th, will be counted as null on the day of the vote.”
Eduardo Baptista is a lieutenant colonel in the Brunssum Allied Joint Forces Command, a NATO headquarters in southern Holland. He complains that the system favors candidates supported by political parties and does not understand how 7,500 proposals can be required from a citizen who wants to run. “It’s just that it’s not just signatures, it’s three pages where people spend at least 10 minutes responding.” According to Eduardo Batista, the system is “an electoral fraud” that does not respect the Constitution for “not allowing ordinary citizens to be candidates.”
The law, however, allows for the moment that he remains a candidate even if he has not submitted all the documentation and less than 7,489 signatures than the law requires. “There is nothing in the law that says that a citizen to formalize the request has to deliver 7,500 signatures, not even that they have to deliver all the documents before the deadline, which was December 24,” Eduardo Baptista tells the Observer .
After this manifestly insufficient delivery, Eduardo Baptista explains that “the Constitutional Court has until the 4th to review the documentation and inform the candidates if everything is in order or, in the event of a lack of documents or signatures, to give until the 11th so that they are rectified ”. It is more than likely that on the 4th the Ratton Palace will contact Eduardo Baptista to deliver the missing proposals, something that the candidate will not do. “I have no means. Perhaps if the media had reported my candidacies and the entities I contacted had resolved the problems, I would have succeeded, but that is impossible. I want to be a candidate with only those 11 signatures ”, he insists.
Eduardo Baptista says that he sent letters to the Constitutional Court, the Assembly of the Republic, and the heads of the Armed Forces, to the latter asking them to be granted a license to campaign, but did not receive positive responses. He believes that the absence of a response eliminated the possibility of campaigning in Portugal. The still candidate says that “only when I went on vacation could I come to Portugal”. And he adds: “If I came before to collect signatures, I was processed by the military institution for leaving the service.”
The candidate feels aggrieved, since he says that he had the same right as any citizen to run for the Presidency of the Republic, but there is a “mafia scheme that takes power away from the Portuguese people.” Eduardo Baptista also complains about the lack of attention from the media, saying that he sent letters to “14 or 15 national and local organizations” and that practically no one wrote about his candidacy. This, he regrets, made his campaign stay “on the website and on social media.”
When the controversy arose over the absence of the debates of candidate Tino de Rans, the candidate supported by the Liberal Initiative, Tiago Mayan Gonçalves, went out to the public demanding that both Vitorino Silva and Eduardo Batista be included in the television debates.
⏩ In addition to the best known candidates, there are also two candidates, Eduardo Baptista and Vitorino Silva, who must be recognized as candidates.
I leave the challenge to the media to integrate them into the debates.# Maya2021 pic.twitter.com/RJGH0CA4NL
– Tiago Mayan 2021 (@LiberalMayan) December 25, 2020
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