A BOLA – Remember the day of the election for the presidency of Benfica (Benfica)

This Saturday, Benfica elected its 34th president in 117 years of history. Rui Costa, on list A, beat Francisco Benitez, on list B.

The number of voters broke records, with 40115 voters in attendance, with Rui Costa winning with more than 84 percent of the vote.

Live Elections:

5:36 am: Elections are closed

5:24 am: Rui Costa addressed the elections

5:10 hours: Rui Costa took office.

4:55 hours: Benfica’s new governing bodies will take over.

4:54 am: Rui Costa is already at the Pavilhão da Luz.

4:51 am: Benitez addressed the defeat in the elections. Read here.

4:41 hours: Rui Costa officially won the elections with 84.48 percent of the vote

4:27 am: Benitez entered the Pavilhão da Luz.

3:51 am: Benitez is already at the Estádio da Luz.

3:43 am: Benitez will address the defeat in the elections.

3:31 am: Rui Costa won the election with 84.5 percent of the vote.

1:10 hours: The official result is expected at any time.

0:34 hours: Rui Costa is the 34th president of Benfica.

0:31 hours: Rui Costa is already in Luz.

0:12 am: Rui Costa’s vice-presidents are already at Estádio da Luz

0:06 am: TVI24 says the partial count gives 86 percent of the vote to Rui Costa

23:54 hours: TVI24 states that Rui Costa was the candidate with the most votes in the Casas do Benfica, with 95 percent of the vote.

22:19 hours: Final number of voters was 40115

10:17 pm: The doors of pavilion number 2 of Luz have closed

22:00 hours: Time to close the polls: Counting starts immediately afterwards. It is expected that around midnight a trend regarding the final result can already be pointed out.

22:00 hours: 40101 members have already voted.

21.42 hours: 39832 members have already voted.

9:28 pm: 39466 members have already voted.

9:18 pm: João Leite, representative of list B, announced a formal complaint to the Board of the General Assembly for violation of the electoral regulations in several houses in Benfica, in which the list’s delegates did not have access to all acts of the electoral process, as provided for in the regulation. He repudiated and considered incomprehensible the statements of Luís Filipe Vieira, who stated that “too much democracy” in Benfica “is bad”

20:22 hours: The record for voters has been broken. The previous one was 38102 and now it has reached 38208. Read on here.

20:15 hours: 37850 have already voted.

19.44 hours: Adepts in Luz shout “Benfica is ours and it will be until I die”

7:28 pm: More than 36 thousand members have already voted.

7.26 pm: Queues at the Estádio da Luz are over.

19.06 hours: Number of voters in the Luz pavilion alone has already surpassed the number of voters who also voted for Luz in October last year.

7.04 pm: Fernando Seara has already voted: Read on here

18.51 hours: Voting proceeds quickly, partners praise the speed of the process.

6.40 pm: 33574 members have already voted.

6.13 pm: Eusébio’s wife, Flora, has already voted, accompanied by her daughter Carla.

6.12 pm: Nuno Gomes, former red scorer, has already voted.

6.07 pm: List B makes a statement to the journalists at 9 pm, by the representative João Leite.

17.57 hours: more than 31,000 people voted.

5.40 pm: There are lines again, passing door 18, so everything is moving slowly.

17.31 hours: Manuel Damásio has already voted. read on here

17.27 hours: More than 30,000 people have already voted.

17.02 hours: Toni cast her vote. read on here

4.45 pm: Former President Manuel Vilarinho has already voted. read on here

4.30 pm: 26 593 members have already voted.

16.11 hours: More than 25 thousand people have already voted.

4:04 pm: João Noronha Lopes, candidate for the 2020 elections, asks Benfica to come out “stronger” from this electoral act. read on here.

3.47 pm: Servir o Benfica Movement, by Francisco Benítez, repudiates Luís Filipe Vieira’s statements. read on here.

3.38 pm: After lunch time, the queues for voting increased again. 23245 partners have already exercised voting rights.

3.35 pm: Waiting for Luís Filipe Vieira at the exit of the pavilion were about 50 supporters, many of them, it was noticed, to provide support to the former leader, detained last July 7 in Operation Red Card. The atmosphere was tense and forced the PSP to calm down. Contrary to what would be expected, Luís Filipe Vieira ended up leaving through a side door and did not go through the mixed area, where around fifty fans gathered.

15.25 hours: In statements to BTV, the former president incarnate says he is innocent of all accusations against him and guarantees that he “never robbed nor harmed” the club. read on here.

14.58 hours: Luís Filipe Vieira is already at the Luz pavilion to vote.

14.39 hours: The mark of 20 thousand voting members surpassed.

2:25 pm: Pedro Nunes, former roller hockey coach, also stopped by Luz to vote.

14.21 hours: Benfica’s projections point to voting with record numbers.

Voters at 1:00 pm: 16,827
22h Projection: 47,116

Voters at 12:00: 13,392
22h Projection: 46,872

Voters at 11 am: 9,174
22h Projection: 42,812

Voters at 10 am: 5,776
22h Projection: 40,432

Voters at 9 am: 2,639
22h Projection: 36,946

13.51 hours: Right now, around lunchtime, the environment in Luz is much calmer and there aren’t even lines.

13.47 hours: Francisco Benítez, List B candidate, was satisfied with the massive adhesion of the partners. read on here.

13.31 hours: More than 17 thousand members have already voted.

13.16 hours: Rui Costa downplayed the criticisms he has been subjected to and recalled the past as a Benfica supporter. read on here.

12.55 pm: At the exit of the pavilion, several dozen members gathered, showing their support for Rui Costa. The List A candidate unfolded into selfies with several of those present and left to huge applause.

12.52 hours: Rui Costa has already voted and appealed for the union, stressing that the decision-making power is in the hands of the partners. read on here.

12.45 pm: Haris Seferovic, Adel Taarabt, Diogo Gonçalves and Rafa also voted for Luz.

12.43 pm: Álvaro Magalhães, former player and assistant coach of the eagles, also came to vote.

12.41 hours: Rui Costa to vote at this time.

12.23 hours: Exceeded the barrier of 14 thousand voters.

11.57 hours: Rui Costa, List A candidate, is already in Luz to vote.

11.51 hours: More than 12 thousand members have already voted. Keeping the cadence, the record of a year ago, in which 38,102 members voted.

11.35 hours: Players Julian Weigl and Diogo Gonçalves have also voted for Luz.

11.30 am: Luisão, technical and performance director, voted and says he is rooting for “a day without incidents”, calling for the union of Benfica after the election. “I expect a future of hard work and victories, Benfica always come first.”

11.25 hours: The barrier of 10 thousand voters has already been surpassed.

11.22 am: Rui Gomes da Silva, former vice-president and candidate for the 2020 elections, has also voted and foresees a new election in a year and a half. read on here.

10.58 hours: From what it was possible to understand with some partners, the waiting time in the queue and the voting process are not taking more than 20/25 minutes.

10.55 am: André Almeida, Benfica captain, has also been to Luz to vote: “It’s important not only for me but for all Benfica fans. It’s the opportunity to make our opinion count, and in a club of all, I think it’s extremely important to be here today», said the defender.

10.50 am: Rui Pedro Braz, general director for football, voted in the morning and, through a message on social networks, called for the presence of the partners at the polls. read on here.

10.47 hours: 8,370 members have already voted.

10.42 hours: Pizzi, one of the squad captains, has already voted.

10.35 am: Ricardo Araújo Pereira has already voted and, on the way out, he has not spared criticism from Rui Costa. read on here.

10.09 am: The lines are still very crowded in Luz but flow at a good pace.

10.02 hours: 5,440 members have already voted. In line, at this moment, is Ricardo Araújo Pereira, a partner who very recently showed support for Francisco Benítez’s list. read on here.

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9.55 am: Shéu Han gave a few brief words as he left the pavilion, after having voted early in the morning. read on here.

9.20 hours: 3749 members have already voted

9.18 am: Jorge Jesus and director for football, Rui Pedro Braz, are voting.

9.17 am: 2639 people voted until 9 am, reports BTV. At the Luz pavilion, the lines are long, but always moving.

9.06 am: Simão Sabrosa, Benfica’s director of international relations, appealed to the members to go vote. «The partners make me go back to the time I was a player, I have felt affection. I appeal to them to come and vote so they can choose,” he told BTV.

9.06 hours: The central Ferro voted moments ago.

8.58 hours: According to BTV, the barrier of one thousand voters in the Luz pavilion has already been surpassed, while 2,200 were registered in the country’s total.

8.19 am: António Pires de Andrade, chairman of the General Assembly (MAG), wanted to be the first to vote in the Luz stadium pavilion when everything was ready to open the ballot boxes. “At the opening, we already had a lot of people out there and it’s been fast,” he told BTV.

Jorge Jesus and the players will also vote. read on here.

Luís Filipe Vieira will vote during the afternoon, as part of a group of former leaders.

8.15 am: Shéu Han, emblematic figure, has already voted.

8.10 am: The queue at the Luz stadium is long, even before the doors open in pavilion number 2 – where there are 20 polling stations – there were already close to a hundred people.

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