Local election results

The 2025 local elections mark a clear break with the past:

1) PSD-CDS lost 20% of the votes and their absolute majority, achieving their worst ever result in Cascais, in contrast to what happened at national level and despite all the megalomaniac investment made in the election campaign, the mobilisation of big names and the abusive and illegal use of institutional advertising and even some dirty tricks. For some reason, on election night, there was no mention of Cascais and the results only arrived very late.

2) The PS lost almost 6% but remains in second place and now has the enormous responsibility, together with the other parties and elected representatives, of determining the future of Cascais. We hope that together they will make a difference.

3) João Maria Jonet achieved a historic result (electing two councillors and winning over 13% of the votes), which is remarkable for someone who ran as an independent and managed, with far fewer resources than Viva Cascais, to come close to second place, showing that civil society is alive and fed up with the state Cascais has reached;

4) Chega doubled the number of councillors and significantly increased its vote, becoming an essential party in defining policies for the future of Cascais;

5) IL managed to increase its share of the vote to over 6%, and although it did not elect a councillor, it now has one more representative in the Municipal Assembly, which will allow it to play a more active role in determining the municipality's future;

6) BE/Livre/PAN, like the CDU, managed to score points, electing representatives who will certainly play an important role in the Municipal Assembly and in the parishes, namely in Carcavelos/Parede;

7) António Pinto Pereira was the voice of widespread discontent.

To all these parties, we say thank you for bringing hope to a moribund Cascais, where abstention reached a lamentable 50%.

Were these the results we wanted? No, but they are a first glimpse of an entirely new path that can be taken by the opposition if it has the ability to follow it. We wish them all success in this change that Cascais longs for and that, in the coming months, the definitive protection of Quinta dos Ingleses will be imposed in the new municipal framework.

We will do everything to make this happen!