Voters in Madeira can start voting today for the regional parliamentary elections on September 24, in accordance with the conditions set out in the law, namely for professional or health reasons.
The early voting period runs until next Tuesday, and “military personnel who cannot go to the polling station on election day due to an urgent need to perform their duties” can exercise this right in advance.
In this situation there are also officers of armed forces and services performing internal security functions, maritime and aviation personnel who are believed to be on board or displaced on Election Day.
“Voters who are hospitalized or suspected of being hospitalized due to illness and cannot go to the polling station” can also anticipate their right to vote, as can those who are “imprisoned and deprived of their political rights.”
The measure also includes representatives of national teams, organized by sports federations with the status of public sports company, who travel abroad for sports competitions on election day, and higher education students enrolled in the region and on the continent or in the region to study. Azores.
Voters displaced abroad can also vote in advance, such as military personnel, militarized agents and civilians involved in peacekeeping, technical-military cooperation or similar operations, and doctors, nurses and other civilians involved in humanitarian missions , which are recognized as such by the Ministry of Affairs. Foreigners.
Researchers and scholarship holders at a university or similar institutions recognized as such by the competent ministry, students of higher education institutions following an exchange program, and voters who are spouses or similar institutions, relatives or similar persons living together with eligible voters may also anticipate their mood.
Early voting can take place at the municipal council of the municipality where the voter is registered, or at diplomatic and consular representations or Portuguese institutions designated by the Ministry of the Interior abroad.
There are 13 candidates vying for the Madeira legislature, who will compete for 47 seats in the regional parliament, in one constituency.
Portuguese Workers’ Party (PTP), Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP), Left Bloc (BE), Socialist Party (PS), Chega, React Include Integrate (RIR), Earth Party (MPT), National Democratic Alternative (ADN), We are Madeira (PSD/CDS-PP coalition), People-Animals-Nature (PAN), Livre, CDU – Unitary Democratic Coalition (PCP/PEV) and Liberal Initiative (IL) are the political forces running for vote.
In the previous regional elections, in 2019, the Social Democrats elected 21 deputies, losing the absolute majority for the first time since 1976, and formed a coalition government with the CDS-PP (three deputies). The PS obtained 19 mandates, the JPP three and the CDU one.
Source: DN
