António Pero Santos / Lusa
The President of Lisbon City Council, Carlos Moedas
The coalition “For you, Lisbon / Moedas 2025 / PPD/PSD.CDS-PP.IL”, led by the current mayor, Carlos Moedas, won this Sunday’s local elections for the Lisbon City Council. Alexandra Leitão has already accepted defeat.
The President of Lisbon City Council, Carlos Moedaswas re-elected for a second term in office, after winning this Sunday’s local elections, with 39.92% of the votescompared to the 34.84% collected by the Viver Lisboa / PS-L-BE-PAN coalition, led by Alexandra Leitão.
Carlos Moedas’ candidacy manages to obtain 8 of the 17 councilor mandates in dispute, remaining 1 mandate away from the absolute majority, and 30 thousand more votes than in the last local authorities. In 2021, the mayor had won 7 mandates.
“Good evening, Lisbon, how is it?“. Thus began Coins his victory speech.”The people of Lisbon have spoken. They talked, talked and decided. They decided to continue with us for another four years with this project that we started together, the Lisbon residents. Thank you Lisbon, thank you Lisboners“.
“I spoke to Alexandra Leitão, I wished her the best for her personal life, her professional life, her political life. Democracy is like this“, he continued, before thank the parties that supported him: PSD, CDS and Liberal Initiative.
“We love Lisbonand we are together in this project to build an increasingly better Lisbon”, said the mayor.
The socialist candidate for Lisbon municipality accepted defeat on Sunday night, still with the count of 15 of the 24 parishes in the municipality to be determinedat a time when the advantage of the coalition led by Carlos Moedas was already irrecoverable.
“I naturally assume defeat in these local elections. I already had the opportunity to congratulate Carlos Moedas and wish him good luck for the term that is now beginning. This was a long, really good walk.a convergence that I don’t regret for a second having done”, said the candidate.
Alexandra Leitão, who headed the Viver Lisboa coalition, of PS, Livre, Bloco de Esquerda and PAN, promised Moedas “firm and rigorous opposition” in the coming years.
“I take full responsibility of a result that was not what we wanted. In a democracy, whoever wins has the legitimacy to govern and whoever loses has legitimacy and the duty to oppose. That’s what we’re going to do”, added Leitão.
When 7 parishes remain to be determined, the Enough, with 11.62% of the votesis the third most voted political formation in the capital, to frost from CDU with 10.81% of the votes.
