Portugal 2021 Presidential Elections

[Bird on a Fire]

These are coming up in a couple of weeks. I can't vote in them (nor indeed in any Portuguese elections any more #brexitbonus), but I will be following them with interest.

There's a fun narrative this year, with a far-right populist outsider sneaking along in the polls. (There's also the boring reality that the guy who is currently the president will almost certainly continue to be the president)

So follow this thread for candidate profiles, polling updates, gossip, memes etc.

[dyqik]

These are coming up in a couple of weeks. I can't vote in them (nor indeed in any Portuguese elections any more #brexitbonus), but I will be following them with interest.

There's a fun narrative this year, with a far-right populist outsider sneaking along in the polls. (There's also the boring reality that the guy who is currently the president will almost certainly continue to be the president)

So follow this thread for candidate profiles, polling updates, gossip, memes etc.

I look forward to the threads about legal efforts, insurrection, impeachment, etc. to do with this election...

[discovolante]

I am interested in this btw.

[Bird on a Fire]

I've been meaning to do a bit of a writeup since last week, but I've got to finish an MS draft first

It's sort-of interesting, sort-of not, in that it's pretty obvious who's going to win, but the big battle is for second place: will it be the centre-left or far-right? It's incredibly close in the polls, and there's almost certainly a "shy fascist" effect as we see elsewhere seeing as Ventura is widely repudiated. But OTOH support for the incumbent is high enough that it probably won't even go to a runoff.

[discovolante]

Just don't vote for the right-winger, guys.