🇵🇹 Portugal's politics and elections 2.0

[Tender Branson]

Why do Portuguese people have so many names ?

[Tender Branson]

Why do Portuguese people have so many names ?

Normally, one person has 1 or 2 names, like João Maria or Filipe Miguel, and then you add the parents, mother and father, surnames, which could also have 1 or 2 surnames, thus having a long name.

It's strange to see 70 year old canddiates who have the surnames of their parents printed on a ballot.

On a birth certificate maybe yes, but for a 70 year old candidate ?

Funny tradition.

[Tender Branson]

Very interesting to see that they have a portrait of the candidate on the ballot! It'd be fascinating to see if there have been any studies done on what effect that might have--e.g., if candidates with conventionally attractive portraits do better than polling would indicate, or vice-versa, or if "standing out" marginally increases vote share.

I think that is because there are still some illiterate people among the older (or even younger) generations, who like to vote on pictures of the candidates.

But there may be other reasons too.