Adelino Soares (PS), from Vila do Bispo, and Rui André (PSD), from Monchique, are the only two mayors in the Algarve who cannot re-apply for this year's Municipal Elections, due to the law on limited warrants. Conceição Cabrita (PSD), from Vila Real de Santo António, may, but already announced that he will not do it.
There are also eight mayors who, if re-elected, will fulfill their last term, as well as five mayors in functions that have not yet been voted on as heads of list.
Starting at Windward, in Aljezur, we have one of these cases. José Gonçalves (PS) assumed the presidency of the municipality in March 2018, after the then president, José Amarelinho, having been sentenced by the courts to lose his mandate for malfeasance in the licensing of works in Vale da Telha, when he was still a councilor for Manuel Marreiros.
José Gonçalves, who, by all indications, will be the socialist candidate for the Chamber of Aljezur, will therefore face elections for the first time as head of the list.
In the neighboring county of Vila do Bispo, there will be a change of mayor for sure. Adelino Soares (PS) is one of the only two mayors who cannot re-apply, due to the term limitation law. Adelino Soares has been president since 2009.
Em Lagos, there is another case of a potential newcomer, as head of the list, in local elections. The current president Hugo Pereira (PS) inherited the position, midway through the term, after Joaquina Matos was elected as a member of the Assembly of the Republic in the 2019 legislative elections.
Going up the mountain, inland, there is the case of Rui André (PSD), in Monchique, who, like Adelino Soares, won, for the first time, local elections in 2009. Therefore, after 12 years, he can no longer re-apply. There is still no white smoke as to who will be the PSD candidate who will try to maintain the autarchy that, before the victory of Rui André, for 26 years, had been led by the socialist Carlos Tuta.
Em Portimão, Isilda Gomes (PS) can re-apply, but it could also be her last term, after having succeeded, in 2013, Manuel da Luz, as mayor of Portimão.
Similar situation in Silves. Rosa Palma (CDU) also won the elections in 2013 and, if re-elected, will face her last term at the head of the City Council.
Em Lagoa, after Francisco Martins having left the post of president in 2019, with controversy mixed in, Luís Encarnação (PS) assumed the presidency of the Chamber, midway through his term. Incarnation is expected to be the socialist candidate, facing elections as head of the list for the first time. this is a case sui generis, since Francisco Martins can even be re-elected, bearing in mind that it will lead an independent movement.
José Carlos Rolo (PSD) also inherited the position of President of the Chamber of Albufeira, after the unexpected death of Carlos Silva e Sousa, in February 2018.
Although this is already the second time that he leads the executive in this municipality - he was also president, in 2012, after the departure of Desidério Silva to the Algarve Tourism Region -, José Carlos Rolo, if he decides to head a list, will debut in elections as a candidate for the presidency.
Em Loulé, Vítor Aleixo (PS) is one of eight Algarve mayors who can re-apply for the last time, after having won the Chamber, in 2013, Seruca Emídio (PSD).
In the capital of the Algarve, Rogério Bacalhau (PSD) faces the same situation and can only be elected for one more term. In 2013, the then vice president of Macário Correia advanced to the candidacy and kept the City Council of Faro “in the hands” of the coalition led by the PSD, repeating the “feat” – in a very volatile council in electoral terms – in 2017.
Em São Brás de Alportel e Olhão, Vítor Guerreiro and António Pina, both from PS, reached the presidency of the City Council also in 2013 and, if they win, they will also have to leave the City Council in 2025.
Continuing to Sotavento, Ana Paula Martins (PS), in Tavira, assumed the presidency after Jorge Botelho, in 2019, elected deputy and later appointed secretary of state. If the candidacy is confirmed, the mayor also faces the suffrage of the Tavirenses, as head of the list, for the first time.
Em Castro Marim, lives a veteran of municipal affairs. After 20 years in Alcoutim (1993-2013), Francisco Amaral (PSD) is in his second term as president of the Castromarinense autarchy, and he has already proved that he is not afraid of going to votes. In 2019, he resigned from the mandate and, with that, provoked mid-term elections, who won, strengthening its position in the City Council. This year, if you reapply, it will be the last.
Em Alcoutim, with the departure of Francisco Amaral, in 2013, Osvaldo Gonçalves “rescued” the Municipal Council for the PS and kept it socialist in the 2017 elections. In 2021, it will be the last time he can re-apply.
Finally, in Vila Real de Santo António, there is a different situation: Conceição Cabrita (PSD) won the elections in 2017 and is ending her first term. However, he has already announced that he will not re-apply for City Hall.
There will, therefore, certainly, as in Monchique and Vila do Bispo, a new (or new) elected president.
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