The conclusion comes from a meeting of the regional body of the Council of Portuguese Communities (CCP), which was held in Lisbon, where councillors and guests discussed the issue of electronic voting for the 2026 presidential elections.

At the end of the meeting, the CRCPE intends to draw up a set of proposals, which will be sent to the CCP and the government, proposing the creation of a working group in the Assembly of the Republic to implement remote electronic voting.

The creation of this group ‘immediately after the start of the next parliamentary term will enable the project to implement remote electronic voting to begin, starting by developing a pilot test in the shortest possible time,’ reads the proposal, quoted by the Lusa news agency.

The CRCPE believes that, based on the knowledge acquired during the hearings at its meeting, it is still possible to achieve this goal by the next presidential election in January 2026.