General Summary

The Portuguese presidential election of 2006 was held on January 22.

Aníbal Cavaco Silva was elected as the successor of incumbent president Jorge Sampaio, who was barred from running for a third consecutive term by the Portuguese constitution. The result was a decisive victory for former Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party with 50.6% of the vote. Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (born in Boliqueime in Loulé municipality in the Algarve region, on July 15, 1939) was Prime Minister of Portugal from November 6, 1985 to October 28, 1995. ... Categories: Lists of office-holders | Portugal | Presidents of Portugal ... Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio (   listen?) is the current Portuguese President of the Republic, elected for a second term in January 14, 2001. ... In Portugal, the post of Prime Minister (Portuguese: Primeiro-Ministro) is the head of the countrys Government. ... Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (born in Boliqueime in Loulé municipality in the Algarve region, on July 15, 1939) was Prime Minister of Portugal from November 6, 1985 to October 28, 1995. ... The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata) is a political party in Portugal. ...

Candidates

Thirteen citizens presented themselves officially, but only six gathered the 7,500 signatures constitutionally necessary to be a candidate:

• The former President Mário Soares, supported by the Socialist Party
• His party-fellow, Manuel Alegre, who decided to advance without party support
• The Former Prime-Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, who will be supported by the Social Democratic Party and by the People's Party
• Secretary-General of the Portuguese Communist Party Jerónimo de Sousa, also supported by the Ecologist Party "The Greens"
• The Coordinator of the political commission of the Leftwing Bloc Francisco Louçã
• Secretary-General of the PCTP/MRPP Garcia Pereira

All but Cavaco Silva are considered to be from the left side of the Portuguese political spectrum. Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (pron. ... The Socialist Party (Portuguese: Partido Socialista) is a political party of Portugal. ... Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte (born Águeda, 12 May 1936) is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and currently an independent candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006. ... Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (born in Boliqueime in Loulé municipality in the Algarve region, on July 15, 1939) was Prime Minister of Portugal from November 6, 1985 to October 28, 1995. ... The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata) is a political party in Portugal. ... The Democratic Social Center / Peoples Party (Portuguese: Centro Democrático Social / Partido Popular or CDS/PP) is a Portuguese political party. ... PCPs official symbol, featuring the hammer and sickle and the Portuguese national colors, red and green. ... Jerónimo de Sousa (born 13 April 1947 in Santa Iria de Azóia) is a Portuguese politician and current secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), elected in 2004. ... The Ecologist Party The Greens (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista Os Verdes or PEV) is a Portuguese green party, member of the European Greens and a founding member of the European Federation of Green Parties. ... Leftwing Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda) is a Portuguese left-wing political party founded in 1999. ... Francisco Anacleto Louçã (born November 12, 1956) is a Portuguese politician and economist who was an active opponent of the pre-democracy regime and who more recently helped found the left-wing party Bloco de Esquerda. ... PCTP-MRPP symbol The Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers - Reorganizative Movement of the Party of the Proletariat (in the original, Portuguese, PCTP/MRPP - Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses/Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado) was founded in 1970, its first secretary-general being Arnaldo Matos. ... António Garcia Pereira António Pestana Garcia Pereira is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, current leader of the PCTP/MRPP. He is a candidate in the 2006 presidential election, scheduled for January 22nd. ...

There were other potential candidates who, according to the Constitutional Court, did not gather enough signatures: The Portuguese Constitutional Court is a special court, defined by the Portuguese Constitution as part of the judicial branch of the Portuguese political organization. ...

• Diamantino da Silva
• Josué Rodrigues Gonçalo Pedro
• Carmelinda Pereira, leader of the Workers Party of Socialist Unity
• Luís Filipe Guerra, leader of the Humanist Party
• Luís Botelho Ribeiro
• Manuela Magno, nuclear physicist
• Teresa Lameiro

Workers Party of Socialist Unity (Portuguese: Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista or POUS) is small trotskiyst party in Portugal, founded in 1976 after a small split from the Portuguese Socialist Party and is part of a small section of the former 4th International, the International Secretariat of the Fourth... The Humanist Party (Partido Humanista) is a political party in Portugal, without parliamentary representation. ...

Results

Most voted candidate per district (Azores and Madeira not shown)

• Registered Voters: 8,830,706
• Turnout: 62.61%

• (Source: [1])

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