Resolution Criteria
This market will resolve based on the official results of the 2026 Portuguese presidential election. Each candidate option will resolve as YES if that person is elected president, NO if someone else is elected.
Background
The Portuguese presidential election is scheduled for January 25, 2026, with a possible second round on February 15, 2026 if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Current polling suggests António Guterres (current UN Secretary-General and former Prime Minister) is a frontrunner with approximately 19.3% support, though he has not officially declared his candidacy.
Among the listed candidates:
André Ventura: Leader of the far-right party CHEGA who has officially announced his candidacy
Henrique Gouveia e Melo: Former Chief of Staff of the Navy who led Portugal's COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Luís Marques Mendes: Political commentator and former leader of the Social Democratic Party
António Vitorino: Former European Commissioner and Minister of Defense
António José Seguro: Former Secretary-General of the Socialist Party
António Sampaio da Nóvoa: Academic who ran in the 2016 presidential election
Paulo Portas: Former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the CDS-PP party
Other potential candidates like Pedro Passos Coelho (former Prime Minister) may also enter the race but are not currently listed as options.
Considerations
The election is still over a year away, and the field of candidates may change significantly. Additional candidates may declare their intention to run, and some current potential candidates may withdraw.
Update 2025-03-25 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Only One Winning Outcome: Only one candidate option will resolve as YES.
January Election Only: The market resolution is based solely on the results of the January election.
Historical Context: Past instances of multiple elections in a year were exceptional and are not applicable here.
Anticipated Elections: Anticipated or off-schedule elections are not considered.
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3.00Oh my whiskers, this Portuguese presidential race looks like a crowded cat tree! The market says 50%, which feels like a placeholder rather than a reflection of real probabilities. António Guterres, though not listed as an option, is noted as a frontrunner in polling but hasn't declared, so he’s out for this market. Among the listed candidates, André Ventura, the far-right CHEGA leader, has declared and has a strong base. Henrique Gouveia e Melo, with his COVID campaign fame, also seems like a serious contender. Luís Marques Mendes and António Vitorino have established political backgrounds, but their current polling is unclear. Others like António José Seguro, António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Paulo Portas, and João Cotrim Figueiredo have less overt frontrunner status now. Given the contest's dynamics and the creator's note that only one option resolves YES based on the January election, I think the best bet is on André Ventura and Henrique Gouveia e Melo as the most plausible winners. The rest seem less likely without stronger polling or declarations. I’ll place medium confidence bets on these two.
places 40 mana limit order on YES for André Ventura at 50%
places 40 mana limit order on YES for Henrique Gouveia e Melo at 40%
places 20 mana limit order on YES for Luís Marques Mendes at 15%
places 20 mana limit order on YES for António Vitorino at 15%
@TheAllMemeingEye correct, only one option resolves yes
There never happened two elections in the same year in Portugal yet, there was a case of two elections less than a year apart but it was because the country had just come out of a dictatorship;
There also only happened anticipated elections once;
Either way, this is only considering the January Elections.