João Vasconcelos, from Portimão, was this Sunday elected, for the first time, as a deputy for the Left Bloc, a force that thus maintains a representative of the Algarve in Parliament.
In the 2009 and then in 2011 Legislatures, BE had elected its first female deputy for the constituency of Faro, Cecília Honorio, who has not re-applied now.
Vasconcelos was no exception to the good performance of the blocistas at the national level, who asserted themselves as the third most voted political force, after the PÀF coalition (PSD+CDS) and the PS.
But, in the case of the new Algarvian deputy, he managed to almost double the votes obtained by BE in 2011, going from a percentage of 8,16% to the current 14,13%.
Speaking to Sul Informação, João Vasconcelos confessed that, despite “expecting” his election, the dimension of the victory of the Bloc “exceeded my expectations”. He attributed the good result to the "quality of the proposals" by BE, but also to the "great disappointment" of many voters from other parties.
As for the declaration of Catarina Martins, BE's national spokesperson, that this force will not make a PSD/CDS government viable, Vasconcelos reinforced: "we would never make a right-wing government viable, not even thinking about it!"
The new deputy stressed that the Bloc is "open to talk with the parties" of the left, to define a government solution for the future.
In the Legislative Elections this Sunday, the Left Bloc (14,13%) was the 3rd most voted force, after the PS (32,77%), of the Portugal à Frente coalition (31,47). The BE thus supplanted the CDU, which reached 8,68% of the votes cast by voters in the Algarve.
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