US EditionPresidential Election in Portugal Heads to Runoff
Socialist António José Seguro leads with 31% and far-right André Ventura with 24%, marking a rare runoff amid rising far-right influence in Portugal.
- Antonio José Seguro leads the first round of Portugal's presidential election with 30.6 percent of the vote, followed by André Ventura with 24.2 percent, according to partial results.
- The second round of the presidential election is scheduled for February 8, where Seguro and Ventura will compete.
- This runoff marks the first time a far-right candidate, André Ventura, has reached this stage in Portugal's presidential election.
- Chega, led by Ventura, has become the biggest opposition party in parliament after a general election last May, surpassing the Socialists.
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Portugal cracks down on far-right
Portuguese police said on Tuesday they had detained dozens of suspected members of a group that spread neo-Nazi propaganda and committed hate crimes against immigrants. The 37 suspects had "extensive criminal records and links to international groups that promote hate", the judicial police said in a statement, adding that 15 people had been formally charged. The victims were mostly immigrants from Muslim-majority countries in South Asia, accordi…
The Portuguese Police announced the arrest of 37 people, including a policeman, with “extensive criminal records” and links to neo-Nazi organizations.
The Portuguese police held March 37 on suspects that they are part of an extremely responsible group of hate-based offences, which has links with similar international groups, in an expansion operation in...
The Chega candidate André Ventura has finished second in the presidential election in Portugal. At the beginning of February, the decision against the Social Democrat António José Seguro is due.
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elDiarioARThe ultra leader André Ventura overcame the rest of the right in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday and in three weeks he will have to face the winner of the day, the socialist António José SeguroThe socialist Seguro wins the presidential elections in Portugal and will face Ventura in the second round For the first time in four decades, Portugal has not managed to elect the head of state in the first round of the presidentia…
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