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António Filipe believes this 'campaign was worthwhile', despite the candidate's result. The candidate supported by the PCP (Portuguese Communist Party) says that many supporters voted for António José Seguro out of 'fear that there might be two more right-wing candidates in the second round'.
Paulo Raimundo, secretary-general of the PCP, reiterated that the Portuguese 'can count on the Portuguese Communist Party to defend the rights to a better life, to break with right‑wing policy and to create the conditions to open the way to what is necessary — what this candidacy carried of that alternative, patriotic and left‑wing politics.'
A former presidential candidate says there is no other candidate who can give guarantees to the left. Also, it is the day of advance voting.
