The two candidates for the second round of the presidential elections end the electoral campaign 320 kilometers apart and with very different records. António José Seguro will hold a rally in Leça do Balio, near the city of Porto, at 9 pm, while André Ventura will go to the Camarate Volunteer Firefighters barracks, in the municipality of Loures, at 10 pm.
Most voted in the first round, with 31.12% of the votes, António José Seguro decided to dedicate the last day of the campaign to Greater Porto and will end at Lionesa Business Hub, in the municipality of Matosinhos. In a municipality led by socialist Luísa Salgueiro, PS-Porto has called for mobilization, just as the presidential candidate has done in recent days, in relation to the electorate, repeating that “nothing is gained if we stay at home”.
A drastic increase in abstention is Seguro’s biggest electoral concern, despite all opinion studies pointing to him as the next President of the Republic. The DN/Aximage poll, revealed this Thursday, gives him a 35.1 percentage point advantage over André Ventura, with 65.4% voting intentions, against 30.3% for his rival, after the distribution of undecided voters.
Near Lisbon will be André Ventura, who even planned to start the pre-campaign for the second round in Camarate, ending up preferring to take to the streets of Sacavém, also in the municipality of Loures. According to your campaign, the visit to the Camarate Volunteer Firefighters aims to “monitor the prevention of upcoming storms and the situation in Greater Lisbon”.
This afternoon, the leader of Chega, who was the second most voted in the first round of the presidential elections, with 23.52% of the votes, will deliver essential goods in Alcácer do Sal, one of the municipalities most affected by the bad weather that has been ravaging Portugal. And one of the three, the others being Arruda dos Vinhos and Golegã, in which the respective mayors decided that going to the polls will be postponed for a week.
André Ventura argued this Thursday that the same should happen throughout the national territory, “for the sake of equality”, but the National Elections Commission ruled out such a scenario, due to legal impossibility, with the appeal being reduced to “a small maneuver” by António José Seguro, while the current President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said that “there are no political conditions” to declare a state of emergency which would open the possibility of the second round only taking place on February 15th.
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