Paulo Novais / Lusa
Voters registered to vote in the local elections, but who cannot do so on October 12 for professional reasons, will be able to vote in advance from Thursday, but only in the City Council itself.
Municipal elections do not allow vote in mobility. To vote only within the municipality itself.
Os Workers who can’t do so on October 12will have the opportunity to exercise their voting rights from this Thursday, and until next Tuesday (October 7), but Just with justification.
Early voting for professional reasons is made in the City Hall From the municipality where the voter is census, before the mayor, who can exceptionally be replaced by the vice president or any councilor of the municipality.
I.e, Anyone who cannot be in the municipality where he is census on October 12, but has no work justification to vote in advance, will not be able to exercise his right to vote.
The other exceptions are the Students, Inpatients or Prisoners (not deprived of political rights) who required to exercise their voting rights, for whom the collection of early votes ends this Thursday.
Proof of compulsory impediment
Who is covered in exceptions that allow the anticipated vote must bring the ID card and the document proving the impediment issued by the hierarchical superior or employer or other document that sufficiently proves the existence of the impediment.
In this early vote are covered dependent, independent or liberal workers, as well as military, agents of internal security forces and services, firefighters or civil protection agents that on election day cannot move to voting sections for professional reasons.
Also the workers of maritime, aeronautical, rail or road sectors that they are expected to be working on that day they can vote in advance.
The other professionals covered are the members of state official delegations on displacement abroad in representation of the country, the elements of the national teams in official representation abroad, legal persons from the public, private or cooperative sectors and representatives of organizations representing workers or economic activities.
After identifying and proving the impediment, the voter will receive the Three Voting Bulletins (a white to the Parish Assembly, a yellow to the Municipal Assembly and a green for the City Hall) and two envelopes (one blue and one white).
Voting bulletins will be introduced into the white envelope, which is closed and introduced, together with the document proving the impedimentin the blue envelope, which is also then closed.
The voter will receive a receipt proof of the exercise of the right to vote.
The mayor, or his representative, will send the blue envelope to the voter’s vote meeting, to the care of the respective Parish Council, until October 8.
Elections cost 9.5 million euros
According to the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 9.3 million voters They are registered to vote for the municipal elections of 12 October, of which more than 41,000 are certified foreign citizens in Portugal.
9,262,722 are national voters. 18,319 are foreign voters from the European Union (EU) and 22,799 are foreign voters from outside the EU, in both cases census in the national territory, he added.
CNE’s provisional data estimate that they apply in these municipalities 817 political forces and movements, of which 618 are candidates of groups of voter citizens, 181 applications from different party coalitions and 18 political parties.
According to the provisional numbers, in total, the applications presented 1,588 lists to the city councils, 1,524 to the Municipal Assemblies and 9,750 to the Parish Assemblies.
In the local elections, which take place between 08h00 and 19h00 of October 12, voters will elect the driving bodies of 308 municipal councils, 308 municipal assemblies and 3,221 parish assemblies.
Another 37 parishes will choose the executive in citizens plenary, because they have less than 150 voters.
Following these municipalities 302 parishes will be replaced that had been added or extinguished by the 2013 administrative reform, in a process that will disintegrate 135 parish unions.
Portugal has 308 municipalities and, following the next municipalities, will have 3,258 parishes Corvo is the only municipality without parish councilbeing the competences of this assumed by the City Council).