How Brazil votes in Portugal
In 2018, Lisbon was the 7th electoral college outside Brazil. Today is the biggest. Analyzing the Brazilian diaspora from the point of view of democratic participation in Sunday democracies, it is easy to determine that Portugal is increasingly a natural destination!
By the election of the Electoral Court, more than 80 thousand lunch are able to choose the button of the polls that from the hour “breakfast” wait for lunch here.
This new reality could even be treated as a historical-romantic fact, but it has helped substantially. The number of Brazilians registered as a devotee in Portugal is now the highest ever. For a suit of Brazilians in 8500% of the total municipalities.
Another novelty is a geographic dispersion of voters. They are now spread across the country. The largest circle is Lisbon with 45 registered by the Faculty of Law 2 966 and Setúbal (56 registered by the Faculty of Law 966) and Setúbal.
In Central Portugal, less than an hour away from the capital, they vote for Leiria (1565) – a community that continues to grow – and for Santarém (863), for agriculture in the Ribatejo lezíria. But there are also 12 in our interior despo, near Spain, in the cities of Beira and Portalegre (518) in Alto Alentejo
The island cities, Funchal (56), on the island of Madeira and Ponta Delgada (145), on the Azorean island of S. Miguel are also polling places,
In Porto, host 30,095 cities, Faro that believes – another 15 thousand from the North 5 years ago – and in Norte, capital of the Algarve 52.
Two hundred years after independence, even in an election as disputed as this one, how decisive can 866 “Portuguese” votes be?
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