{"id":444646,"date":"2026-02-09T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/02\/09\/il-nuovo-presidente-del-portogallo-e-il-socialista-antonio-jose-seguro\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:05:45","slug":"portugals-new-president-is-socialist-antonio-jose-seguro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/02\/09\/portugals-new-president-is-socialist-antonio-jose-seguro\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal\u2019s new president is Socialist Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 Seguro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Ant\u00f3nio Jos\u00e9 Seguro<\/strong>, candidate for the Socialist Party, is the new president of Portugal. In the second round of the presidential elections, he obtained approximately 67 per cent of the votes, double that of far-right candidate Andr\u00e9 Ventura<\/strong>. The result is in line<\/a> with the poll predictions and is historic for two reasons: on the one hand, Seguro obtained the highest number of votes in the country’s history, almost 3.5 million; on the other, the polls confirm that far-right voters are also on the rise in Portugal.<\/p>\n

Despite the torrential rain<\/a> that has been battering the south of the country for weeks \u2013 and the state of emergency declared in 69 municipalities \u2013 turnout reached around 50 per cent. Seguro, a veteran of the Portuguese socialist family, won 66.6 per cent of the vote against 33.4 per cent for Ventura, leader of the extremist party Chega! (which means ‘Enough!’ in Portuguese), founded in 2019 and growing steadily since.\u00a0Seguro won by a landslide because he could count on the support of the traditional parties<\/strong>: most moderate and conservative voters preferred him to Ventura.<\/p>\n