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Controversial campaign leaves new record in sight in FC Porto elections

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ANDBetween 09:00 and 20:00, at Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, the club’s members elect the governing bodies for the four-year period 2024-2028, which, as in the last vote, in 2020, brings together two opponents to one 16th consecutive term of current president Pinto da Costa.

If businessman and professor Nuno Lobo (list C) is a re-candidate, former coach André Villas-Boas (B), who achieved four successes with the FC Porto football team in 2010/11, including the championship and Europa League, is competing for the first time and appears as the main face of an unprecedented challenge to Pinto da Costa (A), with whom he has been exchanging accusations and criticisms until today, the last day of the campaign admitted in the electoral regulations.

Américo de Sá’s successor since April 17, 1982, the 33rd maximum leader in the club’s history, aged 86, was re-elected several times separately, with the exception of three times, starting in 1988 and 1991, when he won doctor José Martins Soares, with the first of these victories calling more than 10,700 voters to the polls, a record never surpassed.

The 68.65% of votes added four years ago allowed jurist José Fernando Rio (26.44%) and Nuno Lobo (4.91%) to beat in an electoral event spread over two days, but they were the lowest percentage among Pinto da Costa’s 15 electoral victories in his ‘reign’.

Never has the sporting, financial and even infrastructural management of the leader with the most titles and longevity in world football been so contested, at a stage in which FC Porto is already removed from the title of national champion and almost out of the next Champions League, as it is third place in the I Liga with four rounds to go, with the same 62 points as Sporting de Braga, 18 from outstanding leader Sporting and 11 from Benfica, holder of the scepter.

The only chance of winning trophies this season is the Portuguese Cup final, on May 26, when the winners of the last two editions of the competition face Sporting, at the Estádio Nacional, in Oeiras, exactly two weeks after the deadline. for the inauguration of the new elected bodies and about a month after going to the polls.

José Lourenço Pinto is trying to be reappointed as head of the General Assembly Board (MAG) by Pinto da Costa’s list, which nominated Ricardo Valente, councilor of the Porto City Council, to replace Jorge Guimarães on the Fiscal and Disciplinary Council (CFD) and Américo Aguiar , cardinal and bishop of Setúbal, as first candidate for the Superior Council (CS).

André Villas-Boas, 46 years old, introduced António Tavares, provider of Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto and former PSD deputy to the Assembly of the Republic, to MAG, while economist Angelino Ferreira, who was financial administrator of FC’s SAD Porto and vice-president of the club, is running for the CFD and Fernando Freire de Sousa, leader of the General Council of the University of Porto and former secretary of State, is running for the CS.

Nuno Lobo, 54 years old, proposes lawyer Luís Barradas and manager Heleno Roseira for MAG and CFD, respectively, having given up running for CS, the club’s advisory body, which is elected through the Hondt method and tells another time with an autonomous movement led by lawyer and university professor Miguel Brás da Cunha (list D).

Estádio do Dragão will make 44 voting tables available to members, who are entitled to only one vote, unlike the electoral differentiation observed at rivals Benfica and Sporting, depending on seniority and, also at the Alvalade club, the type of quota.

In addition to non-members, corresponding members, under 18 years of age, without yet paid remuneration or with March dues to be paid on Saturday, do not have active voting capacity, making it impossible to vote in advance, remotely or by mail.

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