The official campaign for the early parliamentary elections on January 30th begins this Sunday, January 16th, after a pre-campaign marked by three dozen televised debates between the political forces that elected deputies in 2019.
PSD president Rui Rio kicks off the official campaign to the north, in the district of Braga, during the afternoon. First, a contact action with the population and local commerce is planned in Barcelos and then a thematic session on economy and innovation in Braga.
The secretary general of the PS and prime minister António Costa is on the island of São Miguel, where he visits companies in Ribeira Grande and presents the socialist candidates for the Azores circle, in Vila Franca do Campo.
The coordinator of Bloco de Esquerda (BE) Catarina Martins is in Miranda do Douro, in the district of Bragança, in the morning, with the dam business on the agenda, and ends the journey in the afternoon with a rally in Viseu.
The CDU – which has João Oliveira and João Ferreira replacing PCP General Secretary Jerónimo de Sousa while he is recovering from surgery on his left internal carotid artery – begins the campaign in the South, with a public session in Aljustrel, Beja district, and has an afternoon rally in Setúbal and in the evening a contact with urban solid waste collection workers in Almada.
In this first of 13 days of official campaign, the CDS-PP led by Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos passes through the districts of Leiria, Santarém and Castelo Branco.
PAN spokesperson Inês de Sousa Real is between Lisbon and Viana do Castelo, while the president of Chega André Ventura campaigns in Batalha, district of Leiria, and in Coimbra – with a dinner-rally, despite the current pandemic situation. of covid-19.
João Cotrim Figueiredo, president of the Liberal Initiative, is in Matosinhos, with the head of the party's list for the constituency of Porto, Carlos Guimarães Pinto, and in Aveiro.
Rui Tavares, head of Livre's list for the Lisbon constituency, has a visit to Feira do Relógio in the morning.
The President of the Republic dissolved the parliament and called early legislative elections for January 30, following the lead of the State Budget for 2022 in general, which had only votes in favor of the PS and the abstention of the PAN.
This is the 17th time that the Portuguese are called to vote in parliamentary elections in democracy, counting with the elections for the Constituent Assembly in 1975.
In addition to PS, PSD, BE, CDU (PCP/PEV), CDS-PP, PAN, Chega, Iniciativa Liberal e Livre – parties that achieved parliamentary representation in the October 2019 legislative elections –, another 30 are running in the elections on January 12, 21. political forces, a total of XNUMX.
The other competing parties are: Aliança, Ergue-te (former PNR), Alternative Democratic National (former PDR), PCTP-MRPP, PTP, RIR, MPT, Nós, Cidadãos!, MAS, JPP, PPM and Volt Portugal, debuting in the legislature.
More than 10 million voters residing in Portugal and abroad are included in the electoral rolls for choosing the 230 deputies to the Assembly of the Republic.
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