Portuguese Communities Council

Portuguese Communities Council
Conselho das Comunidades Portuguesas
Council overview
Formed12 September 1980 (1980-09-12)
JurisdictionGovernment of Portugal
Minister responsible
Websitewww.conselhodascomunidades.pt

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.[1][2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5] This election was delayed by the previous Secetary of State, Berta Nunes, due to the COVID-19 pandemic[6] and the Government wanting to reform the Council. The election resulted in 76 conselheiros being elected.[7] 26 of which being female, meeting the 34% quota, now required following changes to the Council by the Secretary of State.[8]

Results per constituency[7][9]
Constituency (Number of Conselheiros) Country Consulate Consular office Electors Votes Number of Invalid Votes Elected Conselheiros (List)
África do Sul - Joanesburgo e Pretória (3) South Africa Johannesburg Johannesburg 23,601 49 0
  1. Vasco Pinto de Abreu (A)
  2. Elizabete Conceição Antunes Gomes Serrão (A)
  3. Alexandre dos Santos (A)
Durban 2,232
Botswana Gaborone 47
Lesotho Maseru 1
Madagascar Antananarivo 2
South Africa Pretoria Pretoria 2,485
Comoros Moroni 0
África do Sul - Cabo (1) South Africa Cape Town 4,144 20 0
  1. Rui Manuel Rodrigues dos Santos (A)
Alemanha - Dusseldorf, Hamburgo e Berlim (2) Germany Berlin 5,870 253 2
  1. Manuel Machado (C)
  2. António Horta (B)
Dusseldorf 27,528
Hamburg Hamburg 14,450
Osnabruck 98
Alemanha - Estugarda (Varsóvia, Praga, Bratislava) (2) Germany Stuttgart Stuttgart 28,862 47 3
  1. Mário Lopes da Silva Botas (C)
  2. Maria Cândida Pereira de Melo (B)
Munich 12
Frankfurt 164
Czechia Prague 696
Poland Warsaw 1,125
Slovakia Bratislava 122
Andorra (1) Andorra 7,694 70 6
  1. Rui Miguel Araújo Fernandes (A)
Angola (Kinshasa, Malabo) (1) Angola Luanda 13,635 22 10
  1. Diogo José dos Reis Barbosa Marques Leal (A)
Benguela 2,965
DR Congo Kinshasa Kinshasa 139
Central African Republic Bangui 5
Congo Brazzaville 33
Uganda Kampala 50
Burundi Bujumbura 2
Equatorial Guinea Malabo 10
Argentina (Santiago do Chile, Lima) (1) Argentina Buenos Aires Buenos Aires 6,601 119 5
  1. Martin Fabian d’Oliveira (A)
Comodoro Rivadavia 400
Club Português Buenos Aires 42
Rosario 73
Paraguay Asunción 79
Peru Lima Lima 543
Bolivia La Paz 22
Chile Santiago de Chile 1,921
Austrália - Sidney e Camberra (Jacarta) (1) Australia Canberra Canberra 160 No candidate stood for election
New Zealand Nukunonu 0
Tonga Nuku'alofa 0
Pitcairn Islands Adamstown 0
Niue Alofi 0
Cook Islands Avarua 0
New Zealand Auckland 251
Wellington 0
Vanuatu Port Vila 8
Tuvalu Funafuti 0
Samoa Apia 0
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 0
Palau Ngerulmud 0
Nauru Yaren 0
Micronesia Palikir 0
Kiribati Tarawa 0
Solomon Islands Honiara 0
Marshall Islands Majuro 2
Fiji Suva 3
Australia Sydney Sydney 3,214
Brisbane 603
Indonesia Jakarta Jakarta 64
Philippines Manila 64
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 8
Austrália - Melbourne (1) Australia Sydney Melbourne 1,028 141 1
  1. Sara Freitas Fernandes (B)
Adelaide 203
Fremantle/Perth 864
Darwin 152
Bélgica (1) Belgium Brussels Brussels 17,760 No candidate stood for election
Antwerp 8
Liège 1
Brasil - Brasília (1) Brazil Brasilia Brasilia 5,560 No candidate stood for election
Goiânia 1,325
Brasil - Belém (1) Belém of Pará Belém 5,175 875 3
  1. Luis Octávio Rei Monteiro (B)
Manaus 2,055
São Luís do Maranhão 750
Brasil - Belo Horizonte (1) Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte 8,252 No candidate stood for election
Brasil - Curítiba e Porto Alegre (1) Curitiba Curitiba 5,784 83 3
  1. António Davide Santos da Graça (A)
Londrina 3,063
Porto Alegre 3,299
Brasil - Recife e Salvador (1) Recife Recife 4,188 107 0
  1. José Miranda Reis de Melo (A)
Natal 513
Salvador (Bahia) Salvador (Bahia) 2,757
Porto Seguro 0
Brasil - Fortaleza (1) Fortaleza 2,511 39 0
  1. José Augusto Pinto Wahnom (A)
Brasil - Rio de Janeiro (3) Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro 87,813 384 1
  1. Flávio Alves Martins (A)
  2. Roselene Silva Pires de Boaventura (A)
  3. Orlando Cerveira Francisco (A)
Vitória 1,823
Niterói 0
Brasil - São Paulo (4) São Paulo São Paulo 107,552 115 1
  1. Teresa de Jesus Pires Morgado (A)
  2. António Carlos dos Santos Gomes (A)
  3. Beatriz Neves Guedes Pereira (A)
  4. Armandino Oliveira Guerra Torrão (A)
Campo Grande 1,336
Brasil - Santos (1) Santos 12,479 337 1
  1. Jose Duarte de Almeida Alves (A)
Cabo Verde (1) Cape Verde Praia Praia 3,188 11 6
  1. Jose João Correia Nóbrega Ascenso (A)
Mindelo 1,824
Ilha do Sal 358
Canadá - Toronto (3) Canada Toronto Toronto 39,079 0 0
  1. Laurentino de Sousa Esteves (A)
  2. Katia Susana Esteves Caramujo (A)
  3. Paulo António da Silva Pereira (A)
Winnipeg 1,570
Chatham-Kent 86
Canadá - Montreal e Otava (1) Montreal 7,355 34 0
  1. Daniel Ferreira Loureiro (A)
Ottawa 1,271
Canadá - Vancouver (1) Vancouver Vancouver 4,395 No candidate stood for election
Edmonton 1,161
China (Tóquio, Seul, Banguecoque, Singapura) (3) China Beijing Beijing 152 1,972 70
  1. Rita Botelho dos Santos (A)
  2. Carlos Rui Pires Marcelo (A)
  3. Marília Gomes Coelho Coutinho (A)
Taiwan Taipei 0
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 0
China Macau 54,007
Shanghai 127
Canton 73
Japan Tokyo 292
Thailand Bangkok Bangkok 144
Vietnam Hanoi 30
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 56
Laos Vientiane 2
Cambodia Pnom Pen 2
Myanmar Yangon 2
Singapore 491
South Korea Seoul Seoul 67
North Korea Pyongyang 0
Espanha (1) Spain Barcelona 46,561 38 1
  1. Hilário Caixeiro da Cunha (A)
Madrid Madrid 14,221
Salamanca 16
León 2,007
Bilbao 3,339
San Sebastián 45
Vigo Vigo 7,290
Ourense 137
Seville Seville 5,126
Badajoz 11
Estados Unidos - Washington (1) United States Washington Washington 6,453 5 5
  1. Mário Francisco da Costa Ferreira (A)
Chicago 0
Houston 0
Estados Unidos - Miami e Orlando (Palm Coast) (1) Orlando 0 31 0
  1. Manuel Pinto Pereira Viegas (A)
Palm Coast 8,258
Miami 0
Bahamas Nassau 0
Estados Unidos - New Bedford, Boston e Providence (2) United States Boston 6,155 202 8
  1. Márcia Vitória Furtado Sousa (B)
  2. João Jacinto Faria Correa (B)
New Bedford 7,403
Providence 4,920
Estados Unidos - Newark e Nova Iorque (2) Newark Newark 15,219 108 1
  1. Paulo Alexandre de Almeida Pereira (B)
  2. Carla Sofia Cabral Rodrigues da Silva (B)
Philadelphia 56
New York New York 7,151
Waterbury 4,169
San Juan, Puerto Rico 49
Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands 0
George Town, Cayman Islands 17
Estados Unidos - São Francisco (Cidade do México) (1) San Francisco San Francisco 5,612 6 0
  1. Manuel da Silva Bettencourt (A)
Los Angeles 7
Honolulu 0
Pago Pago, American Samoa 0
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 0
Mexico Mexico Mexico City 1,342
El Salvador San Salvador 10
Guatemala Guatemala City 25
Honduras Tegucicalpa 4
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 81
Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Town 0
Belize Belmopan 1
França - Paris (7) France Paris Paris 190,105 253 6
  1. Antonio Paulo Neves Marques (A)
  2. Odete da Silva Fernandes (A)
  3. Fernando Julião Rodrigues (A)
  4. Cristina de Sá do Vale Alves (A)
  5. João do Nascimento Martins Pereira (B)
  6. Maria Emília de Almeida Ribeiro (B)
  7. Antonio Manuel Pinho dos Santos Oliveira (B)
Rouen 4,190
Le Havre 38
Lille 226
Nogent-Sur-Marne 752
Reims 693
Orléans 12,900
Tours 14,216
Versailles 560
Nantes 111
Mata Utu, Wallis and Futuna 0
Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0
Marigot, Saint Martin 1
Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy 6
Saint-Denis, Réunion 20
Papeete, French Polynesia 1
Nouméa, New Caledonia 0
Fort-de-France, Martinique 3
Mamoudzou, Mayotte 0
Cayenne, French Guiana 0
Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 5
França - Bordéus e Toulouse (2) Bordeaux Bordeaux 54,224 288 6
  1. Vitor Gabriel Rodrigues Gomes de Oliveira (A)
  2. Maria Teresa Gonçalves Fontão (A)
Bayonne 244
Toulouse 21,408
França - Lyon e Marselha (3) Lyon Lyon 95,004 306 9
  1. Jorge Manuel Ascensão de Campos (A)
  2. Emília Fernanda de Campos Rolo Macedo (A)
  3. Manuel Moreira Cardia Lima (B)
Clermont-Ferrand 10,718
Marseille Marseille 11,747
Ajaccio 6,428
Nice 11,890
Montpellier 5,072
Monaco Monaco City 206
França - Estrasburgo (1) France Strasbourg Strasbourg 19,590 62 6
  1. Rui Manuel Ribeiro Barata (A)
Nancy 135
Grã-Bretanha - Londres e Manchester (Dublin) (6) Ireland Dublin 6,275 577 3
  1. António Manuel Mota da Cunha (B)
  2. Sandra Conceição Ferreira (B)
  3. João Pedro dos Santos Alves da Cruz (B)
  4. Ciana d’Costa (B)
  5. Duarte Manuel Sousa Fernandes (B)
  6. Pedro Filipe Anes Xavier (C)
United Kingdom London London 125,008
Gibraltar 117
Saint Helier, Jersey 4,173
Saint Peter Port, Guernsey 248
Grã-Bretanha - Bermuda (1) Hamilton, Bermuda 1,070 No candidate stood for election
Guiné-Bissau (Abidjan, Argel, Cairo, Rabat, Abuja, Dakar, Túnis, Adis Abeba) (1) Algeria Algiers Algiers 12 No candidate stood for election
Egypt Cairo Cairo 37
Jordan Amman 12
Sudan Khartoum 3
Eritrea Asmara 0
Morocco Rabat 416
Nigeria Abuja Abuja 22
Ghana Accra 54
Togo Lomé 4
Niger Niamey 2
Chad N'Djamena 3
Cameroon Yaoundé 7
Benin Porto-Novo 4
Senegal Dakar Dakar 242
Sierra Leone Freetown 3
Mauritania Nouakchott 4
Mali Bamako 7
Liberia Monrovia 2
Guinea Conakry 39
Gambia Banjul 5
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 2
Tunisia Tunis Tunis 179
Libya Tripoli 3
Guinea-Bissau Bissau 210
Ivory Coast Abidjan 97
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Addis Ababa 10
South Sudan Juba 0
Somalia Mogadishu 1
Rwanda Kigali 76
Djibouti Djibouti City 1
Índia (Islamabad, Astana, Teerão) (1) India New Delhi New Delhi 326 No candidate stood for election
Sri Lanka Kotte 4
  Nepal Kathmandu 7
Maldives Malé 3
Bhutan Thimphu 0
Bangladesh Dhaka 2
India Goa 13,794
Iran Tehran 16
Pakistan Islamabad Islamabad 21
Karachi 4
Kazakhstan Astana Astana 8
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 1
Israel (Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Doha) (1) Saudi Arabia Riyadh Riyadh 350 No candidate stood for election
Bahrain Manama 50
Oman Muscat 49
Yemen Sanaa 1
Israel Tel Aviv 29,854
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi 2,844
Kuwait Kuwait City 141
Iraq Baghdad 6
Qatar Doha 579
Luxemburgo (2) Luxembourg 37,617 164 9
  1. Ines Rodrigues Peixoto (B)
  2. Custódio Manuel Caseiro Portásio (A)
Moçambique (Nairóbi, Harare) (1) Mozambique Maputo Maputo 7,869 No candidate stood for election
Eswatini Mbabane 249
Mauritius Port Louis 6
Uganda Kampala 0
Tanzania Dar es Salaam 29
Seychelles Victoria 3
Mozambique Beira Beira 1,006
Quelimane 0
Nampula 198
Zimbabwe Harare Harare 361
Zambia Lusaka 12
Malawi Lilongwe 78
Kenya Nairobi 184
Namíbia (1) Namibia Windhoek 566 31 1
  1. Manuel Cândido de Oliveira Coelho (A)
Países Baixos (1) Netherlands The Hague The Hague 17,247 18 1
  1. Tiago Rodrigues Soares (A)
Rotterdam 82
Curaçau (1) Curaçao Curaçao 370 No candidate stood for election
Aruba Aruba 70
Netherlands Philipsburg 1
Caribbean Netherlands 3
São Tomé e Príncipe (1) São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé São Tomé 640 No candidate stood for election
Gabon Libreville 13
Suécia (Oslo, Copenhaga, Helsínquia) (1) Denmark Copenhagen Copenhagen 2,640 No candidate stood for election
Lithuania Vilnius 56
Faroe Islands Tórshavn 0
Greenland Nuuk 0
Finland Helsinki Helsinki 710
Mariehamn 0
Estonia Tallinn 92
Norway Oslo Oslo 3,540
Iceland Reykjavik 459
Norway Olonkinbyen 0
Bouvet Island 0
Sweden Stockholm Stockholm 1,700
Gothenburg 881
Latvia Riga 23
Suíça (Roma, Viena) (5) Austria Vienna Vienna 1,949 305 7
  1. António Guerra Iria (B)
  2. Ângela Guilhermina Tavares Barbosa dos Reis (B)
  3. José Pio Bemposta (B)
  4. Helena Veríssimo de Freitas (B)
  5. Domingos Augusto Ramalho Pereira (A)
Slovenia Ljubljana 51
Italy Rome Rome 3,706
Milan 44
Malta Valletta 279
Holy See Vatican City 2
San Marino City of San Marino 5
Albania Tirana 7
 Switzerland Bern 24,522
Geneva Geneva 60,278
Sion 16,714
Zurich Zurich 43,035
Lugano 5,345
Liechtenstein Vaduz 309
Timor-Leste (1) East Timor Dili 1,270 56 2
  1. Filipe Martins da Silva (A)
Turquia (Ankara, Bucareste, Atenas, Sófia, Nicósia, Budapeste, Moscovo, Belgrado, Kiev, Zagrebe) (1) Bulgaria Sofia Sofia 307 No candidate stood for election
Kosovo Pristina 10
Greece Athens 414
Hungary Budapest 258
Serbia Belgrade Belgrade 110
Montenegro Podgorica 4
North Macedonia Skopje 17
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 4
Romania Bucharest Bucharest 370
Moldova Chișinău 524
Russia Moscow Moscow 232
Uzbekistan Tashkent 0
Tajikistan Dushanbe 3
Belarus Minsk 3
Armenia Yerevan 0
Ukraine Kyiv 86
Croatia Zagreb 60
Turkey Ankara Ankara 535
Istanbul 3,367
Turkmenistan Ashgabat 0
Georgia Tbilisi 12
Azerbaijan Baku 4
Afghanistan Kabul 2
Cyprus Nicosia Nicosia 317
Syria Aleppo 0
Damascus 2
Lebanon Beirut 54
Uruguai (1) Uruguay Montevideo 1,185 58 0
  1. Manuel Fernando Correia Vilar (A)
Venezuela - Caracas (Bogotá, Panamá, Havana) (4) Colombia Bogotá Bogotá 841 443 7
  1. José Fernando Campos da Silva Topa (A)
  2. Marina Neves Correia Pereira (A)
  3. José Alberto de Viveiros Fernandes (A)
  4. Maria Fátima Teixeira Leite (A)
Ecuador Guayaquil 202
Quito 137
Saint Lucia Castries 0
Dominica Roseau 1
Cuba Havana Havana 16
Haiti Port-au-Prince 0
Venezuela Caracas Caracas 28,350
Ciudad Guayana 16
Barcelona 1,286
Guatire 8
La Guaira 19
Porlamar 399
Los Teques 2,824
Anguilla The Valley 0
Barbados Bridgetown 4
Grenada St. George 2
British Virgin Islands Road Town 2
Jamaica Kingston 7
Montserrat Brades 0
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 0
Suriname Paramaribo 1
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain 95
Antigua and Barbuda St. John 0
Guyana Georgetown 16
Panama Panama Panama City 1,466
Costa Rica San José 250
Nicaragua Managua 8
Venezuela - Valência (2) Venezuela Valencia Valencia 11,469 565 4
  1. Maria Fátima de Pontes Loreto (B)
  2. Leonel Moniz da Silva (A)
Maracay 6,359
Barquisimeto 1,457
Maracaibo 88
Mérida 428
San Cristóbal 307


2015

On 9 June 2015, Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities, José Cesário, called for elections to take place on 6 September 2015.[10]

References

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  4. ^ "Expats want electronic voting for 2026 presidential election". ECO News. 24 March 2025. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
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