The party’s official page indicates that their candidate lists have been approved with a 92% favorable vote, maintaining ten of last year’s top candidates and featuring a total of seven women heading the lists.
The Socialist Party (PS) plans to introduce Pedro Delgado Alves as the leading candidate for Coimbra and the parliament vice-president Marcos Perestrello for Santarém. Party leader Pedro Nuno Santos is slated to head the Aveiro list, with Mariana Vieira da Silva leading in Lisbon.
According to PS statutes, it is the prerogative of the Secretary-General, Pedro Nuno Santos, to appoint one-third of the positions, with the remaining two-thirds decided by each electoral district’s political commissions.
Significant changes include the addition of JS Secretary-General Sofia Pereira as the second candidate for Porto, with Frederico Francisco, the former Deputy Secretary of State for Infrastructure, placed at number six.
In Lisbon, former Secretary of State and current Deputy Miguel Cabrita moves into the second position following Pedro Delgado Alves’s shift to leading the Coimbra list.
The Lisbon electoral district sees Eva Cruzeiro, a political science-trained rapper, entering the list at eighth position, while former Secretary of State Hugo Mendes, involved in the TAP scandal involving Alexandra Reis, has moved down to fifteenth.
Hernâni Loureiro, Chief of Staff for Pedro Nuno Santos, appears in sixth place on the Braga list, which previously rejected the proposed candidates in a late-night session.
Fernando Araújo, former executive director of the National Health Service, leads Porto’s list, while former PS leadership contender José Luís Carneiro heads the roster in Braga once again.
For the Santarém district, where previous elections were led by PS Parliamentary leader Alexandra Leitão, now a candidate for Lisbon’s city council, the choice falls on Parliament vice-president Marcos Perestrello.
In Setúbal, the list is led by deputy and former Secretary of State António Mendonça Mendes, succeeding Ana Catarina Mendes, who is now a Member of the European Parliament.
Pedro Nuno Santos continues to head the list for Aveiro, accompanied by fellow incumbents such as former Minister Marina Gonçalves (Viana do Castelo), former parliamentary leader Eurico Brilhantes Dias (Leiria), ex-Secretary of State Nuno Fazenda (Castelo Branco), along with Luís Dias (Évora), Jamila Madeira (Faro), Francisco César (Azores), and Elza Pais (Viseu).
For the expatriate circles, Emília Ribeiro is nominated for Europe, and Vitor Silva for Outside of Europe.
Rui Santos, current mayor, will lead the list in Vila Real, and Aida Carvalho, President of the Côa Parque Foundation Board, in Guarda.
Bragança sees Júlia Rodrigues, current mayor of Mirandela, taking the lead in the list.
In Beja, former deputy Pedro do Carmo returns, as does former deputy Luís Moreira Testa in Portalegre.
New development in Madeira includes a transition from Paulo Cafôfo, recently defeated in regional elections, to Emanuel Câmara, current President of Porto Moniz’s council, leading the list.
