The Portuguese Communities Council (Portuguese: Conselho das Comunidades Portuguesas) is the Portuguese government's advisory body on policies relating to emigration and the Portuguese communities abroad.
The Council is made up of a maximum of 90 members, elected by Portuguese citizens living abroad. The last election was held on 26 November 2023.
The Regional Council of the Portuguese Communities in Europe, a regional body of the Council, are demanding the Government of Portugal, introduce online voting for the next Portuguese presidential election.
Election results
2023 results On 13 September 2023, Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities, Paulo Cafôfo, called for elections to take place on 26 November 2023. This election was delayed by the previous Secretary of State, Berta Nunes, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Government wanting to reform the Council. The election resulted in 76 conselheiros being elected. 26 of which being female, meeting the 34% quota, now required following changes to the Council by the Secretary of State. +Results per constituencyConstituency (Number of Conselheiros)CountryConsulateConsular officeElectorsVotesNumber of Invalid VotesElected Conselheiros (List)África do Sul - Joanesburgo e Pretória (3)JohannesburgJohannesburg23,601490 Vasco Pinto de Abreu (A) Elizabete Conceição Antunes Gomes Serrão (A) Alexandre dos Santos (A)Durban2,232Gaborone47Maseru1Antananarivo2PretoriaPretoria2,485Moroni0África do Sul - Cabo (1)Cape Town4,144200 Rui Manuel Rodrigues dos Santos (A)Alemanha - Dusseldorf, Hamburgo e Berlim (2)Berlin5,8702532 Manuel Machado (C) António Horta (B)Dusseldorf27,528HamburgHamburg14,450Osnabruck98Alemanha - Estugarda (Varsóvia, Praga, Bratislava) (2)StuttgartStuttgart28,862473 Mário Lopes da Silva Botas (C) Maria Cândida Pereira de Melo (B)Munich12Frankfurt164Prague696Warsaw1,125Bratislava122Andorra (1)7,694706 Rui Miguel Araújo Fernandes (A)Angola (Kinshasa, Malabo) (1)Luanda13,6352210 Diogo José dos Reis Barbosa Marques Leal (A)Benguela2,965KinshasaKinshasa139Bangui5Brazzaville33Kampala50Bujumbura2Malabo10Argentina (Santiago do Chile, Lima) (1)Buenos AiresBuenos Aires6,6011195 Martin Fabian d’Oliveira (A)Comodoro Rivadavia400Club Português Buenos Aires42Rosario73Asunción79LimaLima543La Paz22Santiago de Chile1,921Austrália - Sidney e Camberra (Jacarta) (1)CanberraCanberra160No candidate stood for electionNukunonu0Nuku'alofa0Adamstown0Alofi0Avarua0Auckland251Wellington0Port Vila8Funafuti0Apia0Port Moresby0Ngerulmud0Yaren0Palikir0Tarawa0Honiara0Majuro2Suva3SydneySydney3,214Brisbane603JakartaJakarta64Manila64Bandar Seri Begawan8Austrália - Melbourne (1)SydneyMelbourne1,0281411 Sara Freitas Fernandes (B)Adelaide203Fremantle/Perth864Darwin152Bélgica (1)BrusselsBrussels17,760No candidate stood for electionAntwerp8Liège1Brasil - Brasília (1)BrasiliaBrasilia5,560No candidate stood for electionGoiânia1,325Brasil - Belém (1)Belém of ParáBelém5,1758753 Luis Octávio Rei Monteiro (B)Manaus2,055São Luís do Maranhão750Brasil - Belo Horizonte (1)Belo HorizonteBelo Horizonte8,252No candidate stood for electionBrasil - Curítiba e Porto Alegre (1)CuritibaCuritiba5,784833 António Davide Santos da Graça (A)Londrina3,063Porto Alegre3,299Brasil - Recife e Salvador (1)RecifeRecife4,1881070 José Miranda Reis de Melo (A)Natal513Salvador (Bahia)Salvador (Bahia)2,757Porto Seguro0Brasil - Fortaleza (1)Fortaleza2,511390 José Augusto Pinto Wahnom (A)Brasil - Rio de Janeiro (3)Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro87,8133841 Flávio Alves Martins (A) Roselene Silva Pires de Boaventura (A) Orlando Cerveira Francisco (A)Vitória1,823Niterói0Brasil - São Paulo (4)São PauloSão Paulo107,5521151 Teresa de Jesus Pires Morgado (A) António Carlos dos Santos Gomes (A) Beatriz Neves Guedes Pereira (A) Armandino Oliveira Guerra Torrão (A)Campo Grande1,336Brasil - Santos (1)Santos12,4793371 Jose Duarte de Almeida Alves (A)Cabo Verde (1)PraiaPraia3,188116 Jose João Correia Nóbrega Ascenso (A)Mindelo1,824Ilha do Sal358Canadá - Toronto (3)TorontoToronto39,07900 Laurentino de Sousa Esteves (A) Katia Susana Esteves Caramujo (A) Paulo António da Silva Pereira (A)Winnipeg1,570Chatham-Kent86Canadá - Montreal e Otava (1)Montreal7,355340 Daniel Ferreira Loureiro (A)Ottawa1,271Canadá - Vancouver (1)VancouverVancouver4,395No candidate stood for electionEdmonton1,161China (Tóquio, Seul, Banguecoque, Singapura) (3)BeijingBeijing1521,97270 Rita Botelho dos Santos (A) Carlos Rui Pires Marcelo (A) Marília Gomes Coelho Coutinho (A)Taipei0Ulaanbaatar0Macau54,007Shanghai127Canton73Tokyo292BangkokBangkok144Hanoi30Kuala Lumpur56Vientiane2Pnom Pen2Yangon2491SeoulSeoul67Pyongyang0Espanha (1)Barcelona46,561381 Hilário Caixeiro da Cunha (A)MadridMadrid14,221Salamanca16León2,007Bilbao3,339San Sebastián45VigoVigo7,290Ourense137SevilleSeville5,126Badajoz11Estados Unidos - Washington (1)WashingtonWashington6,45355 Mário Francisco da Costa Ferreira (A)Chicago0Houston0Estados Unidos - Miami e Orlando (Palm Coast) (1)Orlando0310 Manuel Pinto Pereira Viegas (A)Palm Coast8,258Miami0Nassau0Estados Unidos - New Bedford, Boston e Providence (2)Boston6,1552028 Márcia Vitória Furtado Sousa (B) João Jacinto Faria Correa (B)New Bedford7,403Providence4,920Estados Unidos - Newark e Nova Iorque (2)NewarkNewark15,2191081 Paulo Alexandre de Almeida Pereira (B) Carla Sofia Cabral Rodrigues da Silva (B)Philadelphia56New YorkNew York7,151Waterbury4,169San Juan, Puerto Rico49Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands0George Town, Cayman Islands17Estados Unidos - São Francisco (Cidade do México) (1)San FranciscoSan Francisco5,61260 Manuel da Silva Bettencourt (A)Los Angeles7Honolulu0Pago Pago, American Samoa0Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands0MexicoMexico City1,342San Salvador10Guatemala City25Tegucicalpa4Santo Domingo81Cockburn Town0Belmopan1França - Paris (7)ParisParis190,1052536 Antonio Paulo Neves Marques (A) Odete da Silva Fernandes (A) Fernando Julião Rodrigues (A) Cristina de Sá do Vale Alves (A) João do Nascimento Martins Pereira (B) Maria Emília de Almeida Ribeiro (B) Antonio Manuel Pinho dos Santos Oliveira (B)Rouen4,190Le Havre38Lille226Nogent-Sur-Marne752Reims693Orléans12,900Tours14,216Versailles560Nantes111Mata Utu, Wallis and Futuna0Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon0Marigot, Saint Martin1Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy6Saint-Denis, Réunion20Papeete, French Polynesia1Nouméa, New Caledonia0Fort-de-France, Martinique3Mamoudzou, Mayotte0Cayenne, French Guiana0Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe5França - Bordéus e Toulouse (2)BordeauxBordeaux54,2242886 Vitor Gabriel Rodrigues Gomes de Oliveira (A) Maria Teresa Gonçalves Fontão (A)Bayonne244Toulouse21,408França - Lyon e Marselha (3)LyonLyon95,0043069 Jorge Manuel Ascensão de Campos (A) Emília Fernanda de Campos Rolo Macedo (A) Manuel Moreira Cardia Lima (B)Clermont-Ferrand10,718MarseilleMarseille11,747Ajaccio6,428Nice11,890Montpellier5,072Monaco City206França - Estrasburgo (1)StrasbourgStrasbourg19,590626 Rui Manuel Ribeiro Barata (A)Nancy135Grã-Bretanha - Londres e Manchester (Dublin) (6)Dublin6,2755773 António Manuel Mota da Cunha (B) Sandra Conceição Ferreira (B) João Pedro dos Santos Alves da Cruz (B) Ciana d’Costa (B) Duarte Manuel Sousa Fernandes (B) Pedro Filipe Anes Xavier (C)LondonLondon125,008Gibraltar117Saint Helier, Jersey4,173Saint Peter Port, Guernsey248Grã-Bretanha - Bermuda (1)Hamilton, Bermuda1,070No candidate stood for electionGuiné-Bissau (Abidjan, Argel, Cairo, Rabat, Abuja, Dakar, Túnis, Adis Abeba) (1)AlgiersAlgiers12No candidate stood for electionCairoCairo37Amman12Khartoum3Asmara0Rabat416AbujaAbuja22Accra54Lomé4Niamey2N'Djamena3Yaoundé7Porto-Novo4DakarDakar242Freetown3Nouakchott4Bamako7Monrovia2Conakry39Banjul5Ouagadougou2TunisTunis179Tripoli3Bissau210Abidjan97Addis AbabaAddis Ababa10Juba0Mogadishu1Kigali76Djibouti City1Índia (Islamabad, Astana, Teerão) (1)New DelhiNew Delhi326No candidate stood for electionKotte4Kathmandu7Malé3Thimphu0Dhaka2Goa13,794Tehran16IslamabadIslamabad21Karachi4AstanaAstana8Bishkek1Israel (Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Doha) (1)RiyadhRiyadh350No candidate stood for electionManama50Muscat49Sanaa1Tel Aviv29,854Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi2,844Kuwait City141Baghdad6Doha579Luxemburgo (2)37,6171649 Ines Rodrigues Peixoto (B) Custódio Manuel Caseiro Portásio (A)Moçambique (Nairóbi, Harare) (1)MaputoMaputo7,869No candidate stood for electionMbabane249Port Louis6Kampala0Dar es Salaam29Victoria3BeiraBeira1,006Quelimane0Nampula198HarareHarare361Lusaka12Lilongwe78Nairobi184Namíbia (1)Windhoek566311 Manuel Cândido de Oliveira Coelho (A)Países Baixos (1)The HagueThe Hague17,247181 Tiago Rodrigues Soares (A)Rotterdam82Curaçau (1)Curaçao370No candidate stood for electionAruba70Philipsburg1Caribbean Netherlands3São Tomé e Príncipe (1)São ToméSão Tomé640No candidate stood for electionLibreville13Suécia (Oslo, Copenhaga, Helsínquia) (1)CopenhagenCopenhagen2,640No candidate stood for electionVilnius56Tórshavn0Nuuk0HelsinkiHelsinki710Mariehamn0Tallinn92OsloOslo3,540Reykjavik459Olonkinbyen0Bouvet Island0StockholmStockholm1,700Gothenburg881Riga23Suíça (Roma, Viena) (5)ViennaVienna1,9493057 António Guerra Iria (B) Ângela Guilhermina Tavares Barbosa dos Reis (B) José Pio Bemposta (B) Helena Veríssimo de Freitas (B) Domingos Augusto Ramalho Pereira (A)Ljubljana51RomeRome3,706Milan44Valletta279Vatican City2City of San Marino5Tirana7Bern24,522GenevaGeneva60,278Sion16,714ZurichZurich43,035Lugano5,345Vaduz309Timor-Leste (1)Dili1,270562 Filipe Martins da Silva (A)Turquia (Ankara, Bucareste, Atenas, Sófia, Nicósia, Budapeste, Moscovo, Belgrado, Kiev, Zagrebe) (1)SofiaSofia307No candidate stood for electionPristina10Athens414Budapest258BelgradeBelgrade110Podgorica4Skopje17Sarajevo4BucharestBucharest370Chișinău524MoscowMoscow232Tashkent0Dushanbe3Minsk3Yerevan0Kyiv86Zagreb60AnkaraAnkara535Istanbul3,367Ashgabat0Tbilisi12Baku4Kabul2NicosiaNicosia317Aleppo0Damascus2Beirut54Uruguai (1)Montevideo1,185580 Manuel Fernando Correia Vilar (A)Venezuela - Caracas (Bogotá, Panamá, Havana) (4)BogotáBogotá8414437 José Fernando Campos da Silva Topa (A) Marina Neves Correia Pereira (A) José Alberto de Viveiros Fernandes (A) Maria Fátima Teixeira Leite (A)Guayaquil202Quito137Castries0Roseau1HavanaHavana16Port-au-Prince0CaracasCaracas28,350Ciudad Guayana16Barcelona1,286Guatire8La Guaira19Porlamar399Los Teques2,824The Valley0Bridgetown4St. George2Road Town2Kingston7Brades0Basseterre1Kingstown0Paramaribo1Port of Spain95St. John0Georgetown16PanamaPanama City1,466San José250Managua8Venezuela - Valência (2)ValenciaValencia11,4695654 Maria Fátima de Pontes Loreto (B) Leonel Moniz da Silva (A)Maracay6,359Barquisimeto1,457Maracaibo88Mérida428San Cristóbal307
2015 On 9 June 2015, Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities, José Cesário, called for elections to take place on 6 September 2015.
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