Socialist candidate Jorge Sampaio talks to the press after casting his vote on January 14. Sampaio was triumphantly elected president of Portugal on Sunday in succession to outgoing head of state Mario-Soares, television exit polls said. Sampaio, 56, crushed his conservative rival, former premier Anibal-Cavaco-Silva, in the head-to-head election winning up to 60 percent of the vote, the polls said