His remarks were an indirect reference to the country’s
president, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, who must decide which party
leader to ask to form a government. The norm is for him to
ask the leader of the largest party to do so, after consulting
all parties with seats in the new parliament, but Portugal's
Constitution only states that he must take account of the
make-up of the assembly.
Costa issued his call towards the end of a speech at a
campaign event in Vila Nova de Gaia, south of Porto, in
which he asked Socialist activists and supporters to
convince “one by one those who are still undecided” and
who might be leaning towards voting for other parties,
including on the left.
"This time each vote will be really absolutely essential to
guarantee an absolutely unequivocal result - an absolute
majority that gives no pretexts to anyone to not nominate a
new PS government on Monday to govern Portugal in the
next four years," he said.
Those who fail to vote in Sunday's election, he argued, is "an
indirect vote in the right's coalition".
The right-of-centre governing coalition has been leading in
the polls, though with little indication that it can secure an
absolute majority of the seats in parliament.
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