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The National Elections Commission (CNE) has no indication of obstacles to advance mobile voting in the districts of Leiria and Coimbra, the areas worst affected by Storm Kristin, its spokesman André Wemans said today.
He says the people working at the polling station should have 'competence'.
Perhaps it is the first time that, in Portugal, the State does something in advance instead of leaving it to the last minute. Rather than there being fewer ballot papers, there are ballot papers with extra candidates.
The Constitutional Court noted this Monday that it is not for it to rule on the fact that the ballot papers for the presidential election include excluded candidates, stating that the printing of the ballots is the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Administration. “The printing of the ballot papers constitutes a responsibility of the State, through the electoral administration of the General Secretariat of ...”
The candidate supported by the PCP said he found it hard “to understand that, for operational reasons, citizens who are not candidates appear on the ballot paper”, given “the times we live in”.
