Name: Portugal to vote for president as infections rise
Uploaded: 2021-01-23T19:20:18.000Z
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Portuguese voters largely confined to their homes due to a strict covert 19 locked down, will pick a new president on Sunday.

But some fear going to the polls could worsen a surgeon.

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Coronavirus cases on low turnout is expected The country of 10 million people, which fared better than others in the first wave of the pandemic, now has the world's highest seven day rolling average of new cases and deaths per million people.

Almost two thirds of voters think the election should be postponed.

This man says he doesn't expect many voters to turn out.

This woman says, If you could only leave home to go to work, you shouldn't be able to go to the polling station.

Delaying the ballot would have required changing the country's constitution, something officials said was not possible at such short notice.

But there has been widespread criticism off the decision to press ahead with the vote for the largely ceremonial president.

Pollsters expect record high abstentions Voluntary teams cloud in protective gear, collecting ballots at the doorsteps of some 13,000 quarantine voters in about 250,000 people have registered for early voting to avoid crowds.

 Opinion polls show that the incumbent president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of the center right Social Democratic Party, is likely to easily win re election. 