“Elections are won by the votes of the Portuguese people, when they are counted, and in the end the majority decides who is the new President of the Republic. What would be completely surprising, even a nightmare, is if the Portuguese people want a President, want the candidacy that I am running for, and then, by not voting, allow someone else to win the elections,” he said.
Asked whether he felt his legitimacy would be undermined if, instead of winning by a comfortable margin, he had a result just above 50%, the PS-backed candidate replied that “it would be an unacceptable risk if such a situation arose”.
“I believe that there has never been such a simple choice to make in Portugal, because these are two completely different paths and two completely different candidate profiles. What I ask of the Portuguese people is that they do not take any risks and vote for the right side,” he appealed.
For Seguro, his responsibility as a candidate for President of the Republic is to “appeal to the hearts of the Portuguese people to go out and vote next Sunday”. “It is very important that the Portuguese people decide who they want as President of the Republic and not let others choose and make choices for them,” he insisted.
During this visit, the most-voted candidate in the first round was joined by centrist Diogo Feio, former candidate for the Cascais City Council, João Maria Jonet, and PS deputy Miguel Costa Matos.
