(28 May 2025)
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Lisbon, Portugal – 28 May 2025
1. Pan right of officials counting ballots
2. Tilt up of box carrying ballots from Macau, China
3. Various of counting of ballots
4. Close of box carrying ballots from Sao Paulo, Brazil
5. Close of box carrying ballots from Washington, United States
6. Mid of André Wemans explaining the counting of ballots
7. Close of screen showing progress of votes counting
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) André Wemans, Spokesperson for National Electoral Committee:
“At stake are four parliamentary seats, two from voters registered abroad in Europe and another two from outside of Europe, meaning from the rest of the world. Until this moment, we know we have 347, 000 votes being counted, but additional ballots can still arrive until 5pm in the afternoon.”
9. Close of screen
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) André Wemans, spokesperson for National Electoral Committee:
“Here is a great logistic effort, to receive all these thousands of letters, we have 1,050 people working here to count all these votes, long hours of counting of votes, but in two days we will likely reach the counting of over 350, 000 votes.”
11. Various of workers counting votes
STORYLINE:
Portugal is counting the final votes on Wednesday for its general election which delivered another minority government as well as an unprecedented swing to populist party Chega that added momentum to Europe’s shift to the far-right.
The center-right Democratic Alliance, led by the Social Democratic Party, captured 86 seats in the 230-seat National Assembly to win the ballot on the 18th of May.
That outcome leaves it without a parliamentary majority.
There are still four seats to be allocated that will determine the second place and who will be the leader of the opposition, a role that has been traditionally attributed to one of the two main parties that have rotated in power – the Socialists and the Social Democrats.
Now, Chega is challenging that dominance and is likely to win some, if not most of the remaining seats that are attributed by the Portuguese voters living abroad.
Portugal’s third general election in three years provided little hope for ending the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people.
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