{"id":497995,"date":"2026-01-18T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/socialist-and-far-right-candidates-will-go-to-the-second-round-in-portugal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:30:13","slug":"socialist-and-far-right-candidates-will-go-to-the-second-round-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/socialist-and-far-right-candidates-will-go-to-the-second-round-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist and far-right candidates will go to the second round in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lisbon,.-<\/strong> Former minister and former socialist leader <strong>Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 Seguro<\/strong> and far-right leader Andr\u00e9 Ventura will compete for the Presidency of Portugal in the second round, on February 8th, with 98.75% of the votes counted in the first round of elections held this Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the count, Seguro gets 31% of the votes, followed by Ventura, with 23.65%.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Portugal celebrates presidential elections today to choose Marcelo Rebelo's successor\">http:\/\/Portugal celebrates presidential elections today to choose Marcelo Rebelo&#8217;s successor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nBehind them comes in third place, with 15.82% of the votes, the liberal MEP Jo\u00e3o Cotrim de Figueiredo, with Admiral in the reserve Henrique Gouveia e Melo and the conservative commentator and former minister Lu\u00eds Marques Mendes further behind.\n\nMore than 11 million Portuguese were called to the polls during this day, of which more than 1.7 million reside abroad, to elect the successor of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, after 10 years in the Head of State.\n\nThe turnout as of 4:00 p.m. local time (same GMT) this Sunday was 45.51%, a figure that exceeds the total participation in the last elections of this type, held in 2021, which was 39.24%.\n\nThe president in Portugal has the function of referee and supervisor of political life, and does not have executive prerogatives. Among other powers, he can veto laws, dissolve Parliament, and call elections.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisbon,.- Former minister and former socialist leader Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 Seguro and far-right leader Andr\u00e9 Ventura will compete for the Presidency of Portugal in the second round, on February 8th, with 98.75% of the votes counted in the first round of elections held this Sunday. According to the count, Seguro gets 31% of the votes, followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[17532],"class_list":["post-497995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-portugal"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25yb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}