“I don’t like them anymore. They don’t tell the truth. It’s disappointing,” he says CM Isabel Pereira, 86, at the Lavradores market in Funchal. He has been selling flowers since he was 14 and has always voted for the same political force until now. “This is the first time I have voted differently,” he guarantees.
He is one of 254,522 voters called to the polls in regional elections in Madeira this Sunday. 14 political forces are vying for 47 seats in the regional parliament. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the elections due to the political crisis that began after the searches of the joint venture in Madeira. Miguel Albuquerque is suspected of corruption and named as a defendant.
The PSD has always been ahead of the regional government of Madeira, even though it won the last elections without an absolute majority and without guaranteed governance under an agreement with the MHP.
What’s being discussed
The single constituency elections are up for grabs for 47 seats in the region’s Legislative Assembly, and according to the Ministry of the Interior, 254,522 voters are registered to vote, of which 249,075 on Madeira Island and 5,447 on Madeira Island. Porto Holy Island.
The 292 polling stations, distributed across 54 parishes in 11 municipalities of the archipelago, will be open from 8:00 to 19:00.
The race involves a coalition and 13 individual parties. Compared to the 2023 regional elections, the only difference in terms of the competing parties is the fact that the SDP and SDS-NP (which governed together in the last two legislatures) are represented on different lists when they voted together last year.
As a result of the ballot draw, the National Democratic Alternative (ADN) took first place, followed by the Left Bloc (BE), Socialist Party (PS), Livre (L), Liberal Initiative (IL), React, Include, Recyclar (RIR) , CDU – Unitary Democratic Coalition (PCP/PEV), Chega (CH), CDS – People’s Party (CDS-PP), Land Party (MPT), Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD), People -Animais-Natureza (PAN ), the Portuguese Labor Party (PTP) and Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP).
The candidates are led by Miguel Pita (ADN), Roberto Almada (BE), Paulo Cafofo (PS), Marta Sofia (Livre), Nuno Morna (IL), (Liana Reis) RIR, Edgar Silva (CDU – PCP/PEV). , Miguel Castro (Chega), Jose Manuel Rodriguez (CDS-PP), Walter Rodriguez (MPT), Miguel Albuquerque (PSD), Monica Freitas (PAN), Raquel Coelho (PTP) and Elvio Souza (JPP).
This Sunday’s early elections will take place eight months after the last regional legislative elections, after the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, dissolved Madeira’s parliament following a political crisis triggered in January by the leader of the Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque was named as a defendant in an investigation into allegations of corruption.
The executive director has been in control ever since.
In the last legislature, the Legislative Assembly of Madeira consisted of 20 representatives from the PSD, three from the SDS-PP, 11 from the PS, five from the JPP and four from Chegi. The CDU, BE, PAN and IL took one seat each.
The PSD has always ruled the archipelago and won 11 elections with an absolute majority between 1976 and 2015.
In 2019, the party concluded a post-election agreement with the CDS-PP, and in 2023, when the allies were already competing but did not achieve an absolute majority, the Social Democrats signed an agreement on parliamentary influence with the PAN to achieve a majority. absolute.
In the regional legislative assemblies, the representative of the Republic (the position held by Ireneu Barreto) proposes to the political force to form a government based on the results (which must be published) after consultation with the parties that had seats in parliament in the previous legislature.
This is the third expected regional election in Madeira’s democratic history.
Author: morning Post This Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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