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Locations for mobile voting have changed in the municipalities of Vieira do Minho, Alvaiázere, Leiria, Torres Vedras, Alcácer do Sal and Silves.
The electoral administration changed the location for mobile advance voting on Sunday in six municipalities because of the effects of the storm system Kristin in Vieira do Minho, Alvaiázere, Leiria, Torres Vedras, Alcácer do Sal and Silves.
Voters can register from this Sunday until Thursday to vote early by mobile voting on 1 February.
These are the latest figures. The Centre and the North are the regions most affected. Also in this bulletin: registrations for early mobile voting and the protests in the US following another death in ICE custody.
Voters can register from this Sunday until Thursday to cast an early vote via mobile voting on 1 February in the second round of the presidential election.
Voters will be able to cast their vote on 1 February.
There were 27,653 voters registered for advance mobile voting in the capital, to vote at 118 polling stations at the University of Lisbon. Over 90% of those registered went to the polls last Sunday.
The President of Estonia postponed his visit to Portugal until the end of the electoral period and, therefore, the President of the Republic voted this morning at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Speaking to journalists, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa emphasised the importance of mobile voting, a “very significant advance for democracy”.
Mobile voting takes place on Sunday, one week before the elections, at a location chosen by the voter in any municipality on the mainland or in the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira.
About 218,000 voters signed up to vote early and via mobile voting on Sunday for the presidential election on 18 January, according to provisional data from the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration (SGMAI).
Around 218,000 voters registered to vote early and via mobile polling on Sunday for the presidential election on 18 January, according to provisional data from the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration (SGMAI).
Approximately 218,000 people signed up to cast their ballots early via mobile (advance) voting for the Presidential election.
