Albuquerque says Montenegro is aware of Madeira’s problems and needs to ‘put them into action’

The outgoing president of the Madeira government, Miguel Albuquerque, said this Wednesday that Prime Minister Luis Montenegro knows the problems of the region “very well”, noting that it is now necessary to “try to put this into practice.”

“The current prime minister knows Madeira’s problems very well. In fact, he probably knows better than any other prime minister, and we need to try to put this into practice,” Miguel Albuquerque said while speaking to reporters during the visit. . for a housing project at controlled prices in the municipality of Camara de Lobos.

Miguel Albuquerque highlighted the revision of the Regional Finance Law, which should continue to be worked on, as well as other pending “dossiers”, such as the new Madeira Free Zone regime.

Regarding the new government of the republic, which took office on Tuesday, the Madeiran Social Democrat stressed that it will be an executive branch that “depends a lot on the formation of consensus in parliament” since “unfortunately it does not have a majority to govern.” “.

“Some measures will be carried out by government decree, but issues of the regime, significant issues must be agreed upon,” he said.

Miguel Albuquerque, who won the direct elections of the PSD/Madeira on March 21, also announced that Luis Montenegro, the party’s leader, will attend the regional congress of the Social Democrats, which will take place on April 20 and 21.

Prime Minister Luis Montenegro and the 17 ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government took office on Tuesday at the National Palace of Ajuda, less than a month after the victory of the AD (Democratic Alliance, an electoral coalition formed by PSD, CDS-PP and PPM) in the 10 legislative elections Martha.

The secretaries of state of the XXIV constitutional government, whose names are still unknown, will take office only on Friday.

António Costa resigned as prime minister on November 7 last year after it emerged that he was the subject of a judicial investigation launched by the Ministry of Justice in the Supreme Court as a result of Operation Influencer.

The President of the Republic immediately accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister and decided to dissolve parliament, calling early legislative elections for March 10.

These legislative elections resulted in AD winning by about 54 thousand votes, 0.85% more than PS, the narrowest margin in the history of democracy.

The two coalitions led by the PSD – AD Mainland and Azores and Madeira Primeiro (SDS/SDS-PP) – received 28.83% of the votes and 80 deputies (78 from the PSD and two from the SDS-PP). according to official results.

The PS was the second party in terms of votes with 27.98% and 78 deputies.