Over 94% of the Portuguese registered for the early vote for mobility reasons He exercised his right last Sunday, establishing a new record compared to the previous elections. The Ministry of the Internal Administration of Lisbon communicated this on Thursday according to the Efe Agency.
According to official data, 314,859 voters out of 333,347 entitled have voted in advance, even 94.45% of participation. This is a figure higher than that of the legislative elections of 2024, in which participation in the early vote was 93.8%. The early vote for mobility allows citizens who will not be present in their municipality of residence on the day of the elections to vote a week earlier. For these elections, it was recorded a record number of requestswith over 333,000 members, including the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
At the end of the electoral day last Sunday, all The cards were sealed and kept until the day of the official voteSunday 18 May, when they will be scrutinized together with the rest of the votes. The Portuguese return to the polls after the fall of the conservative government of Luís Montenegro, disheartened in Parliament due to a dispute linked to the entrepreneurial world. According to the polls, the coalition led by Montenegro remains favored also in this electoral round.