More than nine million Portuguese are expected to go to the polls next Sunday to vote in early legislative elections. Voting began with almost 1.6 million Portuguese voters living abroad and asked to exercise their right to vote by mail.
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00:00 More than nine million Portuguese are expected to go to the polls next Sunday to vote in
00:06 early legislative elections. Voting began with almost 1.6 million Portuguese voters
00:12 living abroad and asked to exercise their rights to vote by mail. In the final stretch
00:17 of the election campaign, the two main candidates focused their speeches on women. In an interview
00:23 with RTP, the leader of the socialists, Pedro Nuno Santos, said he wanted to continue valuing
00:29 and defending women, while also calling on the undecided to vote. At a rally in the north
00:35 of the country, the leader of the Social Democrats and the Democratic Alliance said that gender
00:40 equality is a fundamental pillar of equal opportunities and promised important and safe
00:45 steps. Winning the election seems unrealistic for Che Guevara, even if its leader, Andre
00:51 Ventura, claims he will trigger the biggest political earthquake in Europe by winning.
00:56 But the far right has been gaining more votes each ballot. The most recent polls from Thursday
01:01 showed the centre-right coalition with a six-point lead over the socialists.
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