Portugal’s centre-left contender Antonio Jose Seguro is on track to win the country’s presidential election, exit polls showed Sunday, decisively defeating far-right rival Andre Ventura in a vote held after days of destructive storms.
Socialist candidate Seguro had won between 67 and 73 percent of the vote to Ventura's tally of between 27 and 33 percent according to projections from two national television stations based on exit polls.
That means the 63-year-old will, as expected, succeed the conservative Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as president.
The election campaign had been upended by two weeks of storms and fierce gales that killed at least seven people and caused an estimated four billion euros ($4.7 billion) in damage.
The storm disruption forced around 20 of the worst-hit constituencies to postpone the vote by a week, but it went ahead for nearly all the 11 million eligible voters in Portugal and abroad.
