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Inês Bravo Figueiredo at the presentation of Volt Portugal’s electoral program
“Enthusiasm and gratitude” for the elections in Torres Vedras, Rio Maior and Trouxemil and Torre de Vilela. It is a “decisive moment”.
Still in the aftermath of the 2025 local elections, when we look at the , we see many parties: PS, PSD, CDS, Chega, PCP… So on and so forth.
Further down, and in the midst of dozens and dozens of parties or coalitions, we see a VP. I.e, It was Portugal.
The Volt appears with just 0,06%, result of 3,434 votes across the country. It’s less than Livre had in Porto alone, for example. And he couldn’t no mandate, according to official results.
But the Volt entered the municipal map. In , the recent party announced the four names: Rui Estrela Silva, Luís Tirano, Manuel José Neto and Carlos Leite.
None were official Volt candidates, but all had Volt support.
Case by case: the first, Rui Estrela Silva, was elected councilor at the City Council of Torres Vedras. He was a candidate for the civic movement Unidos por Torres Vedras (a coalition between PSD, CDS, and Volt).
Luis Tirano will be a deputy in the Municipal Assembly of Rio Maior. He was an independent candidate, but with support from Volt.
In the same area, Manuel José Neto will be at the Rio Maior Parish Assembly. It was also independent, but with support from Volt.
Finally, Carlos Leite was elected to the Parish Assembly of Trouxemil and Vilela Tower (Coimbra). He was a candidate from the Juntos Somos Coimbra coalition, which brought together PSD, CDS, IL, NC, PPM, MPT and Volt.
Volt Portugal “celebrates with enthusiasm e gratitude” these results of the 2025 local elections. The party writes that it is a “decisive moment for the affirmation of a new generation of politicians in Portugal”.
It is a “harvest of the fruits of five years of hard work”, comments Duarte Costa, co-president of Volt in Portugal.
Inês Bravo Figueiredo, also co-president of the party, speaks of an “emerging collective will to break with the past and build a politics closer to the people”.
The “original” Volt appeared in March 2017. The Volt Portugal was around three years later,
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, ZAP //
