A woman prepares her ballot behind a screen at a polling station in Porto on January 23, 2022, on an early polling day ahead of the January 30 election day. – Over 300,000 Portuguese voters who have signed up to vote a week early, began to cast their ballots in Portugal today at 8:00 am for a snap general election, with polls showing the incumbent Socialists still ahead though with their lead over the nearest centre-right rivals narrowing.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa, who has led two consecutive minority Socialist governments since 2015, was expected to cast his ballot in the northern city of Porto at around 0930 GMT. But surveys carried out in recent days have shown the gap narrowing, with at least one putting the two parties in a statistical tie when the margin of error is taken into account.
During the last election in October 2019, the socialists got 108 seats, eight shies of an outright majority. But Lisbon University political scientist Jose Santana Pereira said it will be “difficult” for Costa to form a stable government without the far-left.Aiding Costa is the fact that the PSD is divided.
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