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Weekend: Portugal prepares to go to the polls

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30/01/2022 GMT

Portugal prepares to go to the polls

BBC World Service - Weekend, Portugal prepares to go to the polls

About 9 million voters in Portugal are eligible to vote in today’s snap election.

About 9 million voters in Portugal are eligible to vote in today’s snap election, after the minority Socialist government’s budget for 2022 was rejected.

Portugal’s president is appealing to voters to take part in today’s elections, despite the record number of coronavirus cases. Hundreds of thousands of people who are isolating have been asked to wait for the end of the day before casting their ballots. 

Also in the programme – thousands of truckers and other protesters converge on Parliament Hill in Canada’s capital city today to voice their opposition to vaccine mandates and other Covid restrictions. 

To discuss this and more, Julian Worricker is joined by Elif Shafak, an award-winning Turkish-British author and women’s rights activist, and Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group.

(Picture: Polling booths are assembled for Portugal's snap election Credit: Reuters / Nunes)

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