António José Seguro was elected President of the Republic this Sunday, with 66.82 percent of the votes, in the second round of the presidential elections, beating André Ventura, who received 33.18, according to provisional results. With 3,482,481 votes, Seguro, who will succeed Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, became the president with the most votes ever, surpassing Mário Soares' 3,459,521 in the 1991 vote. The candidate supported by the PS won with a two-thirds majority and more than doubled the vote compared to the first round. Seguro won 18 districts and two autonomous regions of the Azores of Madeira, won 303 municipalities and more than 2,900 parishes. «The Portuguese people are the best people in the world» «The first word is simple: the Portuguese people are the best people in the world. Excellent, with an enormous civic responsibility and an attachment to the values of democracy", said Seguro, who promised not to forget or abandon the fatalities and populations affected by the bad weather. «Ventura? From tonight onwards we are no longer adversaries, and we now have a shared duty to work for a more developed and fairer Portugal.” «I promised loyalty and institutional cooperation with the Government. I will keep my word. I will never be a counter-power, but I will be a President who demands solutions and results", he further stated.