Vote for the first round of Portuguese Presidential Elections

[Duque de Bragança]

Election day is tomorrow Sunday, but I already voted in the consulate today.

There is one or two known faces.

Ideologies, agenda will follow. No, not just for those two or three.

Mods, please check and correct if need be the pictures sizes.

A run-off is guaranteed.

[Legbiter]

First one I can smell through my monitor. Probably insane, either to left or right. Was tempted by the chainmail but no, this is my candidate. Looks sober, responsible, can cut a ribbon without coming across as weird.



Aaaand then Duq tells me he's a vicious reactionary who wants to tax the kulaks to death. 

[Zanza]

Tough. I had to vote for the guy with chain mail.

[Duque de Bragança]

Close, if only to the end. 

António Filipe, the candidate of the PCP, a communist party which never de-stalinised, yet ended as an useful idiot for the unlikely PS-leftist-communist coalition of some years ago.
Led by a party which had not won the elections, no less.

Pretty much non-existing in this campaign, yep will grudginly appeal to vote for the PS candidate, if he qualifies for the run-off.

Having him too choose between the centre-right/conservative candidate and the anti-immigration/populist/hard right candidate would be hilarious. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Tough. I had to vote for the guy with chain mail.

Humberto Correia, a little-known candidate, having to resort to PR stunts, I guess. It worked.

Former emigrant in France, worked in factories and construction sites. A nice and sympathetic vibe.
Independent.

The chainmail look is a reference to the first King of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques.

[Legbiter]

Close, if only to the end. 

António Filipe, the candidate of the PCP, a communist party which never de-stalinised, yet ended as an useful idiot for the unlikely PS-leftist-communist coalition of some years ago.

Knew it. Shoot the kulaks candidate.

[Norgy]

Dude number one looks least likely to be another Salazar, and most likely to ask for a light and fiver for coffee.
So he has my vote.

[Duque de Bragança]

Dude number one looks least likely to be another Salazar, and most likely to ask for a light and fiver for coffee.
So he has my vote.

André Pestana (pestana = eye lash)

Despite looking least likely to be another Salazar, he graduated from the same university, though he has a biology decree, unlike Salazar.

"Independent" candidate, a somewhat well-known teachers' trade unionist, yet controversial due to authoritarian tendencies and bank accounts shenanigans, which caused quite a stir in his trade union called S.T.O.P (Sindicato de Todos os Profissionais da Educação).

From a left-wing family, formerly a communist youth, but ended up recognising the lack of democracy in communist régimes. Was part till 2023 of MAS (Movimento Alternativa Socialista), some little-known trot organisation (I had to look it up).

[Tonitrus]

They all look rather scruffy.

[Duque de Bragança]

Not very chivalrous, Tonitrus.

There is a lady among them. 

[Maladict]

Tough. I had to vote for the guy with chain mail.

Yeah, hard to beat that one.

[Zoupa]

Voted for the dude with the red scarf. Cest qui?

[Tonitrus]

Not very chivalrous, Tonitrus.

There is a lady among them. 

She might be the least scruffy.   

But, as she is pictured in front a red banner...I have to assume a leftist/communist.  I always understood that being scruffy is a communist prerequisite. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Not very chivalrous, Tonitrus.

There is a lady among them. 

She might be the least scruffy.   

But, as she is pictured in front a red banner...I have to assume a leftist/communist.  I always understood that being scruffy is a communist prerequisite. 

Leftist indeed, plus esquerda written in the background (esquerda = left).

Is the Admiral scruffy too? 

Hint: Portuguese covidiots hate him.

[Duque de Bragança]

Voted for the dude with the red scarf. Cest qui?

Bien joué ! 

Un libéral, comme Macron, mais sans l'opportunisme.  Beaucoup moins de réussite, mais a quand même son créneau. Pas un expert en revirements constants à la Zupiter, mais il adoooore le ™Marché™.

João Cotrim de Figueiredo

Classic Liberal from Iniciativa Liberal. Will probably end up supporting the PSD (centre-right party) / CDS-PP (conservative party), not just versus the left but against Chega (anti-immigration / hard right) as well.
Economist and has an MBA.
Loves prog rock, riding a motorcycle and Alentejo (former communist party stronghold). Benfica fan (important in Portuguese politics), though not the number 1 Benfica fan in this list, since there is a quite famous Benfica troll among the candidates.