The Constitutional Court announced that it had notified the candidacies of Joana Amaral Dias, Ricardo Sousa and José Cardoso to correct, within two days, irregularities that had been identified, which did not happen.
The Constitutional Court indicated this Tuesday that it did not admit candidacies for by Joana Amaral Dias, Ricardo Sousa and José Cardoso.
Last Friday, the Constitutional Court announced that it had notified the candidacies of Joana Amaral Dias, Ricardo Sousa and José Cardoso to correct, within two days, irregularities that had been identifieds.
In a ruling released this Tuesday, the TC highlights that, after that period, none of the three candidacies remedied the irregularities in question.
In the case of Joana Amaral Dias, the TC indicates that “did not include the missing documents”namely the certificate of original Portuguese nationality and the “document proving that he enjoys all civil and political rights”, nor “presented declarations of proposition and respective voter certificates, in terms of completing a legal minimum of 7,500 valid declarations”.
According to the TC, of the 7,500 signatures legally required to be eligible for the Presidency of the Republic, Joana Amaral Dias only presented 1,575 valid entries.
José Cardoso, former member of IL and founder of the Social Liberal Party (PLS), was also unable to gather the necessary 7,500 signatures, having only delivered 7,265 that respected the legal criteriathat is, that they were “regularly instructed, duly signed and with a certificate of registration of the subscriber in the electoral register”.
The same happened with Ricardo Sousa, who only presented 3,761 valid signatures.
There is so 11 candidates for the presidential elections: Gouveia e Melo, Marques Mendes, António Filipe, Catarina Martins, António José Seguro, Humberto Correia, André Pestana, Jorge Pinto, Cotrim Figueiredo, André Ventura and that of the painter and musician Manuel João Vieira.
These are the presidential elections with the most candidates in the history of Portuguese democracy. Until now, the most disputed had been in 2016, with ten candidates.
The first round of the presidential elections takes place on January 18.
