Considering Portugal’s presidential elections do not take place until January next year, there is a huge focus right now on who will be throwing their hats into the ring. Indeed, sitting president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has said he cannot remember a time when the presidential ‘race’ began so early. And while PSD, Iniciativa Liberal and CHEGA have had no trouble endorsing their candidates for the job, PS Socialists have been making a meal of it. The party has managed to become ‘divided’ over support for two men that commentators admit the public barely knows – former PS leader António José Seguro and former MP and Euro MP António Vitorino. Vitorino appears to be the choice of PS leader Pedro Nuno Santos, and his ‘supporters’, while Seguro appears to be the choice of others – and says he will be deciding whether or not he is running in the spring.
PS still not clear on their candidate for presidency
The party led by Pedro Nuno Santos has been making a meal of who to endorse as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. Image: Manuel de Almeida/ Lusa
