António Pedro Santos / Lusa
Counting of emigrant votes in legislative elections 2024
Sending documents will be almost 20% more expensive than last year’s legislative elections. “Justified decision”.
Almost 11 million people were registered for legislative elections last year. Of this total “cake”, an important slice are the 1.5 million Portuguese emigrants.
Many communities ask why the electronic vote is not yet used – which, they argue, would cause many more Portuguese abroad to vote (by 2024 abstention was close to 80% among emigrants).
For now, the bulletin continues to be sent – and received – on paper, by mail; And this system will cost 11.7 million euros in this year’s legislative elections.
It is a 17.5% increase in just one year (compared to the 2024 legislatures).
The government is justified: there was a “increase in unit costs of the registered mail, which went from average cost of 6,245 euros per unit to 7,343 euros“; And there is also“transfer of subscribers from Europe to the United States and for the rest of the world. ”
The expense was approved on Thursday and involves the correspondence display postal services, stresses the.
António Leitão Amaro, Minister of the Presidency thinks this was one of the decisions of the Council of Ministers that “ justified “ -Remember that the government is in management.
