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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. :P

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

A run-off is guaranteed.

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.

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

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

Close, if only to the end.  :lol:

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. :P

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.  :D

Quote from: Zanza on January 17, 2026, 02:18:57 PMTough. 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.

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 17, 2026, 02:23:52 PMClose, if only to the end.  :lol:

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.

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.

Quote from: Norgy on January 17, 2026, 02:48:59 PMDude 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).

They all look rather scruffy.

Not very chivalrous, Tonitrus.

There is a lady among them.  :P

Quote from: Zanza on January 17, 2026, 02:18:57 PMTough. I had to vote for the guy with chain mail.

Yeah, hard to beat that one.

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

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 17, 2026, 03:23:35 PMNot very chivalrous, Tonitrus.

There is a lady among them.  :P

She might be the least scruffy.   :sleep:

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.  :P

Quote from: Tonitrus on January 17, 2026, 04:24:56 PM

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 17, 2026, 03:23:35 PMNot very chivalrous, Tonitrus.

There is a lady among them.  :P

She might be the least scruffy.   :sleep:

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.  :P

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

Is the Admiral scruffy too?  :P

Hint: Portuguese covidiots hate him.

Quote from: Zoupa on January 17, 2026, 04:14:29 PMVoted for the dude with the red scarf. Cest qui?

Bien joué !  :lol:

Un libéral, comme Macron, mais sans l'opportunisme.  :P 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. :P

Quote from: Zoupa on January 17, 2026, 04:14:29 PMVoted for the dude with the red scarf. Cest qui?

Yeah me to. Sucker for a nice scarf.

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.

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 17, 2026, 03:03:29 PMFrom 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.

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

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 ™.  :showoff:
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 %.

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?

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

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.