"In the second round we will have a confrontation between a candidate for democracy and a candidate against democracy, and in this context the Left Bloc finds the silence of the PSD and IL leadership absolutely unacceptable,” declared José Manuel Pureza, at a press conference at the BE’s national headquarters in Lisbon.

The BE coordinator added that "the BE obviously does not hesitate and for that very reason the BE governing bodies have assumed and approved the position of calling for a vote for António José Seguro to defeat André Ventura and to defeat the far-right in these presidential elections."