CNE reports that Madeira’s elections are proceeding normally, despite “some requests for clarification.”

The National Electoral Commission announced this Sunday that regional elections in Madeira are proceeding “normally” and that it has received only “a few requests for clarification” about propaganda outside polling stations.

Around 12:30 p.m., the National Electoral Commission (CNE) spokesman Fernando Anastasio told Lusa that the elections were “proceeding normally and no incidents have been reported.”

“There is nothing significant. The action is going well. There were requests for clarification, but there are few of them, and they relate to some kind of propaganda close to the voting tables,” he said.

According to the person in charge, CNE is still receiving questions regarding the European elections on June 9, but doubts have not been clarified.

The magazine Jornal da Madeira reports in its online edition that this Sunday, while reporting on the streets of Funchal, it saw several posters of different candidates participating in the election campaign that had not yet been removed.

The newspaper reported posters of the CDS and Chegi next to the Rotunda of Engenheiro Jaime Ornelas Camacho, and in the parish of Santo Antonio, at the roundabout above the Medical Center, posters of the SDP. They also found PSD and CDS posters in the Rotunda dos Viveiros in Funchal.

The Assembly of the Republic Election Law regarding propaganda after the end of the election campaign states that propaganda carried out on election day or the day before is punishable by imprisonment or a fine.

Regarding posters, the same law states that the ban applies to distances less than 500 meters from polling stations.

Early regional legislative elections in Madeira will take place this Sunday, in a vote in which more than 254,000 voters are called upon to cast their ballots to choose a new parliament and a new government.

Fourteen candidates are vying for 47 regional parliament seats in one constituency: ADN, BE, PS, Livre, IL, RIR, CDU (PCP/PEV), Chega, CDS-PP, MPT, PSD, PAN, PTP and 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.

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.