Miguel Albuquerque insists he refuses to govern without a majority

The head of the list of the PSD/CDU-PP coalition in the Madeira legislature, Miguel Albuquerque, this Wednesday reiterated the importance of achieving a majority on Sunday, reiterating that he will resign from governing if this does not happen.

“I do not govern, I will not govern and I refuse to govern, unless I have a majority, it is impossible,” Miguel Albuquerque said at a rally in Santa Cruz, emphasizing that only with a majority is this possible. manage “quality”, have stability, carry out the program.

Comparing a leader without a majority to a football match in which you play in the center of the field and in which the players always “trip over each other, always fall and never score goals,” the PSD/Madeira leader also said, who refuses “to be at the head of the government, that doesn’t score goals.”

“I govern to transform Madeira,” said Miguel Albuquerque, who has led the regional government since 2015, insisting that it is impossible “to negotiate every day on a decree, a decision, a budget.”

In the municipality led since 2013 by Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP), the coalition candidate Somos Madeira also repeated the arguments he had already used in Machico, the municipality chaired by the PS, remembering that elections are at stake on Sunday. for the Wood government.

“This is not a chamber election or a parish council election, it is an election of the government of Madeira,” he noted, ensuring that he is at the service of everyone, “no matter where they were born, where they live”, since he does not discriminate against municipalities and works for “all Madeirans”.

Miguel Albuquerque also assured that he has “major projects” for Santa Cruz, talking about the construction of a multifunctional pavilion in Canizo, the construction of more affordable housing and the rehabilitation of the old road connecting Boa Nova with Assomada, a 13 Kilometer section, the work will cost 13 million euros.

In his speech, the leader of the CDS-PP/Madeira and number two on the coalition list, Somos Madeira, also spoke about the JPP, accusing the party of spreading “slander and shame” on a daily basis.

“But look what happened when the lists were drawn up, it is not that brother Elvio betrayed his brother Filipe, and now he comes to ask for trust, to give confidence to a party where they hit houses and betrayed, one brother betrayed another brother . Can anyone give confidence to people of this category, can anyone give a voice to such people,” he asked.

The JPP candidacy is led by Elvio Sousa, president of the Gaula parish council in the municipality of Santa Cruz, the municipality governed by his brother Filipe Sousa, president of the party.

The JPP was born from a movement of independent citizens from the parish of Gaula, who in 2013 participated in the municipal elections in Santa Cruz, where they won with an absolute majority, defeating the PSD, which had governed the municipality since 1976.

In 2015, he ran for the regional legislative assemblies for the first time and elected five deputies. Four years later it lost two parliamentarians.

He now goes into Sunday’s elections surrounded by internal divisions as Filipe Sousa refused to stand as a candidate because they put him in second place on the list.

In the previous regional elections in 2019, the PSD failed to win an absolute majority in the region for the first time since 1976, opting to make a coalition commitment with the SDS-PP to guarantee its continuity in governance.

There are 13 candidates vying for the Madeira legislature, vying for 47 seats in the regional parliament in one electoral district.

PTP, JPP, BE, PS, Chega, RIR, MPT, ADN, PSD/CDS-PP (Somos Madeira coalition), PAN, Livre, CDU (PCP/PEV) and IL are the political forces vying for the vote.

In the previous regional elections, the Social Democrats elected 21 deputies, and the SDS-PP – three deputies of parliament. The PS received 19 mandates, the AKP – three and the CDU – one.