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Economic fears drive Portuguese presidential vote (AP)

11:18am GMT, Thursday, 20 January 2011

People walking by cast their shadows on a photo of Portuguese president Anibal Cavaco Silva, Tuesday, Jan. 18 2011, on the wall of his election campaign headquarters in Lisbon. Cavaco Silva is running for reelection in Portugal's presidential election to be held Jan.  23. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - Portuguese voters fearing their nation is heading toward economic disaster seem poised to re-elect a conservative economist as president by a landslide Sunday in a vote that could make governing difficult for the nation’s Socialist prime minister.



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