Portuguese voters began to vote, this Sunday (18), in the third general election In a few years pAra Elect the new parliament from Portugal. The electoral sections are open from 8am to 7pm local time (4am to 3pm GMT). You Preliminary Results are expected from 20h at local time (16h in Brasília time).
Voting occurs after the prime minister Luís Montenegro lost the vote in March. This led President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Dissolve Parliament and to summon the elections.
A public frustration has increased with the repeated elections and the analysts expect the electoral abstention Increase after a record of 6.47 million people voted by 2024.
What opinion polls show
O AD reached power after winning an election last year, with about 29% of the votes and 80 seats in a parliament of 230 places. show that the party is again in leadership before the elections, but still probably longe of one majority effective.
The aggregator of research Radio Renaissance puts the AD with just over 32%10 percentage points below the support that would give him a majority full of 116 chairs.
Os Socialist of the center left are in second place in researchcom 27%just below the 28% they had a year ago, followed by the Ultracereita Anti-Imigration Party He arrivescom 17% And with little difference from the previous election, when he quadrupled his parliamentary representation.
A Liberal initiative right -wing, fourth, is seen by many experts as an allied potential coalition for the ADbut it is around 6% In research, which would still leave the two parties short of the majority.
