Latest news and stories about diaspora vote in Portugal for expats and residents.
In the run-up to the second round, André Ventura travelled to Switzerland to seek the votes of emigrants.
Ventura secured almost twice as many votes as Seguro among the diaspora — enough for him to call us, the emigrants, fascists.
André Ventura, of Chega, received 48.81% of the votes from Brazilians and Portuguese who went to the polls at the ten polling stations in Brazil for the presidential election. António José Seguro received 21.90%.
With counting in the emigration constituency nearly complete, Ventura is the clear winner with more than 40% of the diaspora's votes, followed by Seguro with 23.24% and Cotrim with 15.50%.
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The Chega candidate said veterans prefer him over the former head of the Navy, and suggested in Ponte de Lima that the PS and PSD tried to limit the diaspora's vote. “To hell with Montenegro,” he said on his birthday.
Brazilian citizens living in Portugal speak about the importance of Sunday’s (18/01) presidential election. They want to prevent the spread of hate speech.
Of the total registered voters, 1,777,019 are registered to vote abroad, 1,050,356 of them in Europe.
