Vote for the first round of Portuguese Presidential Elections

[Valmy]

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

Yeah me to. Sucker for a nice scarf.

[Admiral Yi]

I vote with Zoupa for the Portuguese Maurice Chevalier. Bring on Sexy Lusitania.

I swear on my mother's grave I made the choice before reading he's a Macron style classical liberal.

[Norgy]

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).

Sounds like people I know.

[Duque de Bragança]

First results in 45 minutes, i.e at  20.00 GMT/UTC.

[Duque de Bragança]

Bad news for the preferred candidates over here ; they are not the run-off. Chain mail man possibly last. The comedian candidate, the captain, barely higher.

It's still a range of likely results, with margin error, and votes from abroad have not arrived yet.

But first is António Seguro (seguro = safe), a charisma-free PS (centre-left / Left) apparatchik vs the Benfica troll, formerly PSD, André Ventura, number 9, (anti-immigration) to the right of the right (ahem) but not a Putin fanboy, and pro-Ukraine. Pretty much anti-Maduro and Lula.
Seguro is Legbiter's candidate, I mixed him up with another candidate. The communist is number 10.

Classic liberal candidate only managed to get the Socialist and Populist / hard-right candidates to the run-off, as the ™ Third Man ™. 
With the Admiral dividing even more so the centre-right / right vote, according to some commentators.
For Marques Mendes, number 8 and written on the pic, a well-known PSD (centre-right) politician and commentator, it's a disaster. 8 to 11 %.

[Tonitrus]

Does the President in Portugal have any real power in their system...or are they one of those mostly-symbolic elected monarch/head-of-state Presidents?

[Zoupa]

IIRC mostly symbolic, but they can dissolve parlement and hence provoke new legislative elections.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yes, he can also veto law bills.

The prime minister, Luis Montenegro (PSD) already said that there won't be any vote recommandation since both candidates do not share the same political space with the PSD (centre-right).

Bloco Central (great coalition German-style) has been dead since the PS, after losing elections, chose to ally with unrepentant communists and leftists, under Costa.