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The far proper’s rating might be watched intently, with the vote being held as heavy storms proceed to lash the nation.

Polls have opened within the second spherical of Portugal’s elections, considered as a high-stakes alternative between the socialists and a resurgent far proper.

Voting started at 9am native time (09:00 GMT) on Sunday for the presidential election, with 11 million voters at house and overseas eligible to solid their ballots.

Voters are set to decide on between the Socialist Occasion chief, Antonio Jose Seguro, and Andre Ventura, chief of the nationalist occasion Chega, which suggests “sufficient” in Portuguese.

Exit polls are anticipated by about 9pm native time (21:00 GMT). Most official outcomes are seemingly by 00:00am native time (00:00 GMT).

Seguro, 63, secured 31.1 p.c of the vote within the first spherical, whereas outspoken far-right chief Ventura gained 23.5 p.c.

Whereas Ventura is nearly sure to be crushed by Seguro, the far proper’s rating might be watched intently.

Sunday’s vote will resolve who takes on the emblematic, however largely ceremonial, position of the president.

The vote is going down as heavy storms and flooding proceed to have an effect on the nation. Regardless of an enchancment within the climate in a single day from Saturday to Sunday, not less than 14 of essentially the most affected constituencies have postponed voting for almost 32,000 individuals by one week.

The storms have killed not less than seven individuals, triggered flooding, and brought on harm estimated at 4 billion euros ($4.7bn).

However Ventura’s name to postpone the entire vote has been rejected.

Prime Minister Luis Montenegro mentioned the storms had brought on a “devastating disaster” however that the threats to voting may very well be overcome.

The final presidential election went forward 5 years in the past regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, outgoing President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa instructed Ventura on Friday.