LISBON ¨C Center-left Portuguese presidential candidate Antonio Jose Seguro scored a convincing win over far-right rival Andre Ventura in a run-off vote Sunday held after days of devastating storms.
With 95% of the votes counted, Seguro had won 66% of the vote to Ventura¡¯s 34%. That means the 63-year-old Socialist candidate will, as expected, succeed the conservative Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as president.
The election campaign had been upended by two weeks of storms and fierce gales that killed at least seven people and caused an estimated €4 billion ($4.7 billion) in damage.
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