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The second round is scheduled for 8 February and will be contested between António José Seguro and André Ventura.
At 6am — Presidential elections. Forty years later, the country will head to a second-round vote.
The candidate said it would 'be interesting' to know what the prime minister and leader of the PSD would do in that scenario.
Henrique Gouveia e Melo insists that it is 'most likely' the presidential election will go to a second round and says his biggest opponent is the partisanship of this electoral process.
“Count on me.” Cotrim’s words are the strongest attempt to associate a candidate from a different party with a government since Eanes’s famous “identification with the AD” in 1981. Column by Ana Sá Lopes.
If none of the candidates obtains an absolute majority in the election, there will be a second round on 8 February, contested only by the two candidates who received the most votes.
By Carlos Rodrigues
With a decisive election campaign, Montenegro was no bit-part player: he entered as a “strategic asset”, aligned himself with Marques Mendes and pushed the “useful vote” narrative from the outset.
In a 7am update on the presidential race, Seguro asserts he is the sole left‑wing contender likely to advance to the run‑off.