The defeat and the mobile pope of Manuel João Vieira

“If it were in 7th place, it would be better.” If he is not completely crazy and demented, he will be a candidate again.

The result of Manuel João Vieira in elections presidential this Sunday will have surprised some of his followers, and probably even himself: 8th placeahead of Humberto Correia, André Pestana and also Jorge Pinto, candidate supported by Livre.

They show that the musician had 1,08% of votes, corresponding to 60.899 bulletins with the cross next to your name.

The candidate who managed to collect 12,500 signatures, for the first time, already had “a Ferrari for every Portuguese person” or “wine coming out of the taps”.

When he reacted last night – and he was the first candidate to react – he mixed concepts: “This victory is a defeat” and “this defeat is a victory”.

“On the one hand, it is a victory; on the other hand, it is a defeat. Why, If it were in 7th place, it would be better. But then, 8th is better than 10th”, he analyzed.

Manuel João Vieira was at the door of Padaria do Povo, in Lisbon, and told journalists that it was already “predictable” what Insurance proceed to the second round.

“But I think there was fear on the part of voters of a fight between Seguro and the other liberal right, so they all went to Seguro and I think this caused the other candidates to have fewer votes”, he analyzed.

What does the candidate think “worrying” is the number of votes “in the He arrives”, referring to the 1.3 million votes that André Ventura had in these presidential elections.

Manuel João Vieira, even if he is wearing “different clothes and is older”, should once again be a candidate for President of the Republic: “It is possible (to be a candidate), if you are not completely crazy and demented. At that time, with a different kind of vivacity or, I hope, with some more funds that could allow me to walk around this country with a Papamóvel, to be more comfortable.”

And he still left a challenge to competitors: run a campaign with less money. “I would challenge the other candidates to make a candidacy like ours, with the number of people that ours had and with the budget that our campaign had, and I would then like to see what the result would be”.

“That’s when we saw seriously what it is; because what rules this country is money, and I’ll say right away that When money is involved in these things, the result is always fraudulent in my opinion”, he warned.

Even so, Manuel João Vieira feels that he succeeded “get into the system“It was cramped, but I managed to get in there”, he added.