The first round of the presidential election confirmed trends that had been emerging in the legislative polls, but it freed them from a party discipline that increasingly feels artificial. What emerged from the first round was a fragmentation of the right, tactical voting that favoured the left, the normalisation of the far right, and an electorate that is increasingly volatile, slower to decide and less loyal to party labels. Pedro Magalhães, a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, PhD from Ohio State University and former director of the Polling Centre at the Catholic University, is the guest on the programme “Perguntar Não Ofende”.