Who are Portugal’s new Members of European Parliament?
Most are making their debut in Europe Of the 21 Portuguese members of the European Parliament elected yesterday, there are ‘the young’ with no previous political experience as well as
Turnout for today’s European elections surpasses 2019 ballot
But abstention rate still looks like it will be fairly high The turnout for today’s European elections surpassed that of the 2019 ballot. At 5pm, with just two more hours
IT glitches ‘lose’ some of today’s voters in European elections
Today’s elections to the European Parliament are running smoothly, say reports, but technical problems have been reported at dozens of polling stations across the country. Mobile voting, which is taking
Almost 90% of voters who opted for early voting cast ballots
Almost 90% of the 252,209 voters who registered to vote in advance showed up to cast their ballots last Sunday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) told Lusa. The number
President praises large number of early votes in EU election
Reducing abstention is one of the goals for this EU election Over 252,000 Portuguese citizens signed up to vote early on Sunday (June 2) in the European elections, a number
Social democrats win Madeira regional elections without majority
Talks between parties are expected to begin today Portugal’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) won the Madeira regional elections on Sunday with its worst result ever and without a majority in
President appeals to people to vote early in European elections
Main candidates have blanked plan for televised debates Portugal’s president is doing his best to ‘incentivise’ citizens to vote in the European elections on June 9, following the main parties
AD changes name for European elections
After the confusion during the March 10 legislative elections between AD and ADN (a tiny political party that miraculously gained an enormous number of votes last month), Portugal’s government has
President officially sets European elections for June 9
It’s the date the last government tried so hard to change – to no avail. And now President Marcelo has made it official: Sunday June 9 will be the day
Final tally: AD’s ‘winning margin’ narrowest in Portuguese history
With all the votes from last Sunday’s legislative election now counted, results published in State gazette Diário da República show that the AD centre-right alliance won by the narrowest margin