Nuno Melo admits that in Madeira he preferred an understanding with IL rather than with PAN

The President of the CDS-PP noted on Tuesday that an agreement on parliamentary influence in Madeira had been reached between the PSD and the PAN, “a process [que] passed by the “centrists” and indicated that he would prefer mutual understanding with the Liberal Initiative.

In a conversation with Lusa, Nuno Melo said that the decision “is the result of an agreement between PSD/Madeira and PAN, in which PSD did not participate,” which is “an agreement of the president of the regional government.”

The CDS-PP president also noted that the party led by Ines de Sousa Real, which elected the regional deputy, “is not part of the regional government of Madeira.” “The government includes only the SDP and SDS-PP,” he emphasized.

The centrist leader also noted that regional party structures “have their own charters, are autonomous” and make decisions “without the interference of parties at the national level.”

“For the SDS at the national level, the PAN is a party that has nothing in common with the SDS from an ideological point of view and with which the SDS is fighting,” he emphasized, believing that “the SDS is closer to the IL than the MHP.” “.

Nuno Melo noted that “obviously, as far as CDS is concerned, between the PAN option or the Liberal Initiative there is the Liberal Initiative option.”

“Despite this, I recognize that regional circumstances in a small territorial space and where people know each other, personal aspects could have weight in a decision, the contours of which I do not know, since I was not involved in it,” the MEP emphasized .

The leader of the SDS-NP said that “the process went beyond the SDS,” a party that “did not participate in the negotiations” that took place between the SDS and the PAN.

Nuno Melo also believed that “the issues that have been made public regarding the agreement between PSD and PAN, which has parliamentary influence, are harmless issues that would be difficult for any party in the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira and some agreed measures to renounce.” were already part of the coalition program.”

The Somos-Madeira Coalition (PSD/SDS-PP) won regional legislative elections in Madeira on Sunday but failed to secure an absolute one-member majority, which requires 24 of the archipelago’s 47 parliamentary seats.

PAN MP-elect Monica Freitas announced on Tuesday that she has signed a four-year parliamentary propaganda agreement with the PSD/CDU-PP coalition, securing an absolute majority in the hemisphere.