The pieces of the board in Benfica’s electoral chess are still moving in the coyness of the backstage and away from the public spotlight. But according to information gathered by A BOLA, it is practically a given that the list that Rui Costa will lead in the suffrage on October 9th will have at least one competing list.
And it is also with a high degree of probability that the list that will emerge, in opposition to the current social bodies, will not reflect a common front between the three movements, if we can call them that, which for some time have been taking a public position on the sports management and politics of the Clube da Luz.
On Noronha Lopes’ side, secrecy has been the soul of the business, shielded by the reflection that Lopes and his supporters have been doing in order to assess whether there are conditions to dispute the electoral act on equal terms, in addition to continuing to deserve many doubts. electronic voting process.
Even so, despite suspicions regarding the fairness and transparency of the electoral process, it seems hardly credible that Noronha will not go back to voting after the ballast she won with the result (34.7 percent) obtained last October and after the turmoil caused by the arrest and removal of Luís Filipe Vieira.
The question is also whether Noronha Lopes and the Servir o Benfica Movement, which joined forces in the last elections, will find a new platform of understanding: Francisco Benítez, face and candidate of the movement, remember, ended up joining the list de Noronha as candidate for the chairman of the Board of the General Assembly of Benfica.
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