00:00 More than nine million Portuguese are expected to go to the polls next Sunday to vote in
00:06 early legislative elections. Voting began with almost 1.6 million Portuguese voters
00:12 living abroad and asked to exercise their rights to vote by mail. In the final stretch
00:17 of the election campaign, the two main candidates focused their speeches on women. In an interview
00:23 with RTP, the leader of the socialists, Pedro Nuno Santos, said he wanted to continue valuing
00:29 and defending women, while also calling on the undecided to vote. At a rally in the north
00:35 of the country, the leader of the Social Democrats and the Democratic Alliance said that gender
00:40 equality is a fundamental pillar of equal opportunities and promised important and safe
00:45 steps. Winning the election seems unrealistic for Che Guevara, even if its leader, Andre
00:51 Ventura, claims he will trigger the biggest political earthquake in Europe by winning.
00:56 But the far right has been gaining more votes each ballot. The most recent polls from Thursday
01:01 showed the centre-right coalition with a six-point lead over the socialists.
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