Albuquerque will announce investments because he is not a “secular politician”

The leader and director of the PSD/Madeira regional list, Miguel Albuquerque, said this Sunday that he will announce investments in the electoral campaign because he is not a “talkative politician”, arguing that only his party has the conditions to govern the country.

“I always declare investments and I am not a politician with empty talk,” Miguel Albuquerque told reporters on the first day of the campaign for early regional elections, which will be held on May 26.

This first initiative is marked by the acceptance of one of the electoral commitments before the arrival of Santo António in Funchal, namely the construction of “a new expressway exit junction that will allow the creation of a new exit that will relieve the entire Avenida da Madalena”, which is currently in the hours the peak is overloaded, he emphasized.

This project is suspended due to the political crisis and the fall of the Regional Government (PSD/CDS) and requires an investment of about 7.5 ME.

The Social Democratic candidate, who is also the outgoing chairman of the regional government he has led since 2015, said the candidate’s campaign would focus on “continuing outreach, reaching out to fellow citizens and making commitments” as he has done Today.

“We have no idle talk and we reiterate the need to have a stable government here in Madeira that can govern to maintain economic growth and the low unemployment rate that we have at the moment,” he insisted. .

Albuquerque also criticized those who “get elected and do nothing, as is happening in some areas of the country,” and “others who are unable to govern due to the lack of a majority, which now looks as if the Assembly and parties are in charge of the situation.” . Republic in the Assembly.”

Madeira’s leader said Madeira needs “a government that governs, that instills confidence in the market, in economic agents, in families, and that guarantees the chosen direction in terms of economic growth and employment opportunities.”

According to the PSD/Madeira representative, the party should have a “clear majority” in these elections because they are “the only ones who have the conditions to govern.”

The campaign for the early regional elections in Madeira begins this Sunday with 14 candidates heading to the polls on May 26.

47 seats in Madeira’s regional legislature are up for grabs, and 254,522 voters were registered to vote as of Tuesday, according to the Interior Ministry.

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 – “Animals-Nature” (PAN), the Portuguese Labor Party (PTP) and Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP).

These elections will take place eight months after the last regional legislative assemblies, after the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, dissolved the Parliament of Madeira following the political crisis provoked in January, when the leader of the regional government (PSD/CDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque, was named as a defendant in process during which suspicions of corruption are investigated.

The PSD has always ruled the archipelago and won 11 elections with an absolute majority between 1976 and 2015.

In the last legislative body, the Legislative Assembly of Madeira had 20 representatives from the PSD, three from the SDS-PP (with which the Social Democrats went to the elections in a coalition), 11 from the PS, five from the PPP and four from Chegi. The CDU, BE and PAN took one seat each.