Losing candidates in Portuguese presidential elections

Portugal's president was returned to office for a second term after a victory on Sunday in an election held amid a surge in cases of COVID-19. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who had been widely expected to win, secured 61% of the vote. Rebelo de Sousa, a center-right moderate and former leader of Portugal's Social Democratic Party, will serve a 5-year term which will be his last due to term limits. He devoted most of his victory speech to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying his first thoughts went to its victims and promising to work for an economic recovery once it was over. Socialist candidate Ana Gomes came second with 13%, and close behind in third was André Ventura, a newly arrived right-wing populist with 12%. Portugal has the world's highest rates of new daily infections and deaths per 100,000 population, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, and its public health system is being engulfed.