BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua this Thursday accused PSD leader Luis Montenegro of “obvious inconsistency” towards the President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, given the position taken towards the Prime Minister. .
“The SDP leader is now in a situation of apparent inconsistency, and because of this inconsistency, only the SDP leader can respond. I am responsible for the Left Block. Miguel Albuquerque is not able to remain at the head of the Regional Government,” Mariana Mortagua answered reporters when asked about the investigations involving the Regional Government of Madeira.
Asked what Montenegro’s inconsistencies were, the BE leader said they were obvious, “namely in the position on the Prime Minister’s case and on the case of the PSD/Madeira leader and the regional government president.”
“But more important than the incoherence is the case itself, the nature of the right-wing regime in Madeira is important,” he said.
According to Mariana Mortagua, Luis Montenegro knows “that the right-wing regime in Madeira is built on a network of business and privilege.”
“Because he can only know and therefore, without admitting it, he protects this regime from favoritism and negotiations, as he has always done, because it is the PSD regime in Madeira and the right wing of Madeira for decades and everyone knows it,” he said.
The president of the regional government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, was named as a defendant in the process that led to the arrest of the mayor of Funchal and two managers of the AFA construction group, a source connected to the process told Lusa on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the Police Judicial (PJ) carried out some 130 searches in Madeira and in various locations on the continent as part of an investigation into alleged crimes related to active and passive corruption, economic involvement in business, malfeasance, improper receipt or offering of advantages. abuse of power and abuse of influence.
On the same day, after Miguel Albuquerque said that he would not resign, the PSD president refused to compare the investigations involving the president of the Madeira government and Prime Minister António Costa, saying that “there are more differences than many.” .
In November, after Prime Minister António Costa announced his resignation following an investigation carried out by the Ministry of State in the Supreme Court as part of Operation Strongman, PSD President Luis Montenegro defended holding early elections: saying that “the government has collapsed from within ” and that the degradation of executive power “demands that no more time be lost and the word must be returned to the people.”
The leader of the Social Democrats was very critical of the Socialists and went so far as to consider that the Portuguese “no longer respected either the government or the performance of certain functions by some of its members.”