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#andre-ventura

Portugal votes on Sunday in a second-round presidential election to pick a successor to conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for the largely ceremonial figurehead position. Polls will open at 8 a.m. local time/UTC/GMT on the mainland for about 11 million eligible voters to cast their ballots in a historic runoff the first in 40 years and only the second since democracy was restored in 1974.

Before the campaign was all but officially interrupted by two deadly and destructive storms, some conservative figures in the country had staged a rare display of apparent unity by declaring their support for Seguro in an attempt to head off the possibility of a far-right presidency. Others, including Portugal's centre-right prime minister, Luis Montenegro, have refused to throw their weight behind the socialist.