Fernando Veludo / Lusa
António Araújo
There was not enough signatures, so it could not be a candidate. But the CNE decided, without justification, to keep António Araújo in the bulletins, which had not even been printed at the time when the error was noted.
Was prohibited from running for the Porto Authority, but António Araújo It will be in the newsletters, with a square, for the Portuenses to vote for him if they wish.
Despite seeing his independent candidacy – “we make the guts heart” – squeezed for lack of signatures valid by the Constitutional Court (TC), the National Election Commission (CNE) decided to keep the “candidate he never was” in the voting newsletters. According to Judgment 817/2025, the TC confirmed the decision of the Porto Appeal Court, rejecting the list for only 1,800 valid signatures of the 4,000 required by law.
The independent movement “Do to Porto”, led by Filipe Araújo, also a candidate for the same authority, was one of the first to criticize the “mess”, quotes the.
The movement points out that the municipality of Porto requested clarification from the CNE, the Judicial Court of the District and the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), since The bulletins had not even been printed. The General Secretariat itself suggested the removal of the name to avoid null votes and ensure greater clarity to citizens. However, the CNE decided to keep the name of António Araújo in the newsletters.
“How does anyone explain to a citizen that, in the newsletter, is there a name that is not a candidate after all when it was possible to correct the error, since the bulletins had not yet been printed?” Asks Filipe Araújo.
The candidate’s movement says he tried to urgently request the reprint of the newsletters, but has not received any response so far.
Municipal elections are scheduled for October 12. To Porto compete 12 Candidates -Manuel Pizarro (PS), Pedro Duarte (PSD/CDS-PP/IL), Diana Ferreira (CDU), Sérgio Aires (BE), Filipe Araújo (do to Porto), Nuno Cardoso (NC/PPM), Guilherme Alexandre Jorge (Volt), Hélder Sousa (Free), Miguel Corte-Real (arr), Frederico Duarte Carvalho (ADN) (PTP) and Luís Tinoco Azevedo (Liberal Social Party).
