Miguel Albuquerque calls the fall of the PS government a “strange situation”

The outgoing President of the Government of Madeira (PSD/SDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque, this Friday described as “strange” the situation that led to the fall of the government with an absolute majority of the PS, and stressed that it contributes to the growth of extremism.

“Everyone has already realized, or at least most people have realized with some clarity, something obvious, namely that this situation cannot continue. You have a prime minister of a government with an absolute majority in which the government falls and no one knows why it fell to this day,” he said.

Miguel Albuquerque, speaking on the sidelines of a visit to a company in Funchal, reacted this way to the fact that former Prime Minister António Costa considered that “chance had decided” for the President of the Republic to end “prematurely” the previous legislature and that the right was in despair looking for a pretext to dissolve parliament.

This interpretation of the events that prompted Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to call early elections is contained in the foreword written on March 15 by António Costa to the book by the former president of the PS parliamentary group, Eurico Brillante Díaz, entitled “Written Words.”

In an oblique reference to the “Operation Influential Man” judicial investigation that led to his resignation as prime minister on November 7 last year, Antonio Costa notes that one will never know “what the future would have been like if the past had been different.” . “.

The head of Madeira’s government, which also fell after an investigation into suspected corruption in the archipelago, warns of a rise in extremism in situations like the one involving the former prime minister.

“The situation is strange in terms of the separation of powers, and all this leads to the growth of extremism and means that anti-system parties, parties that live by contestation and protest, are growing, because this is not just a problem of judicialization of politics – it is a combination of judicialization and mediatization.” , – he said.

Miguel Albuquerque therefore warns of the danger that the regime and the democratic rule of law will fall into “dysfunctionality.”

“There has to be someone who will take a stand on this issue,” he said, before amplifying: “No one has understood or can understand why this happened, and, above all, [ex] The Prime Minister has not yet been heard, months have passed.”