Portugal votes on Sunday in a second-round presidential election to pick a successor to conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for the largely ceremonial figurehead position. Polls will open at 8 a.m. local time/UTC/GMT on the mainland for about 11 million eligible voters to cast their ballots in a historic runoff the first in 40 years and only the second since democracy was restored in 1974.
If bill is signed into law, Portugal would join several European countries which already have full or partial bans. Portugal has approved a bill to ban face veils used for gender or religious motives in most public spaces that was proposed by the far-right Chega party and targets burqas and niqabs worn by Muslim women. Under the bill, approved by parliament on Friday, proposed fines for wearing face veils in public would range from 200 to 4,000 euros ($234-$4,670).