Prior to the closing interventions of the AD campaign by the PSD/CDS-PP Coalition, the Portuguese musical group “Insert Coin” took the stage at 6:30 PM. At this time, many seats in Campo Pequeno were still unoccupied, though the venue eventually filled up more.
The audience was animated with ’90s and 2000s hits played loudly, alongside popular Portuguese songs like “Apita o comboio” and “Quero cheirar teu bacalhau”. The event hosts moved around the room, urging attendees to wave flags and make noise.
In the audience, especially in the seating area, AD supporters joined in with dances and coordinated movements.
As Emanuel’s “Nós, Pimba” played, a conga line formed within the venue, including many youth members from the parties as well as notable figures like Ministers Fernando Alexandre, Margarida Balseiro Lopes, MEP Sebastião Bugalho, and the CDS-PP parliamentary leader, Paulo Núncio.
In the front row, more reserved, sat the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, former PSD leader Manuela Ferreira Leite, the party’s First Vice-President Leonor Beleza, and other ministers such as Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, Lisbon’s lead candidate, and Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel.
“Thanks to everyone, except Hugo Soares who went up there to take photos instead of dancing,” the show’s host joked.
Later on, the PSD’s Secretary-General and Parliamentary Leader donned one of the band’s jackets, although he did not sing.
Vice-President of the Parliament Teresa Morais was also brought on stage at the urging of the audience — “Teresa go ahead, your people are here” — but she, too, refrained from participating in the karaoke.
