What is the importance of immigration to Portuguese municipalities? This will be the theme of a debate this week, in preparation for municipal elections. The event is promoted by Casa do Brasil de Lisboa, from 18:00 this Tuesday, October 7th.
Two competings will participate in the presidency of the Parish Council of Misericórdia: Carla Almeida, candidate for the Lisboa Lisbon coalition (PS, Be, Livre and Pan) and Pedro Duarte, candidate for the coalition for IT, Lisbon (PSD, CDS and IL).
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A representative of the House of India and the renewing Mouraria will also be in the conversation. The debate is open to the public. Like the DN Brazil This week reported, there was an increase of 111% in the number of Brazilian and Brazilians registered to vote for these elections.
In recent months, especially after the May legislative election of May, Brazilian leaders have started a campaign on social networks to encourage census. One of these campaigns was the “Those who vote account”, with the objective of encouraging this electoral registration.
The elections are scheduled for Sunday, October 12th. More than 9.3 million voters are registered to vote. CNE’s provisional data estimate that they apply in these municipalities 817 political forces and movements, of which 618 are candidates of groups of voter citizens, 181 applications from different party coalitions and 18 political parties.