IL candidate for the Madeira regional elections, Alicia Teixeira, defended this Monday the mandatory binding of teachers after a three-year contract and the abolition of quotas for access to the 5th and 7th career levels.
The candidate of the Liberal Initiative, led by Nuno Morna, met this Monday with the Independent Union of Teachers and Pedagogues in Funchal.
After the meeting, Alicia Teixeira, third on the Liberal list, accompanied by Nuno Morna, stressed to Lusa that the party follows “the many demands of teachers that are common to everyone.”
In this sense, if there is representation in the regional parliament again, after the early elections on May 26, the Liberals will take initiatives to rethink the assessment model, eliminate vacancies for the transition from the 4th to the 5th level and from the 6th to the 7th level , and that the recruitment of teachers should not take more than three years.
“We here continue to maintain a five-year contract so that there is communication, except for the Secretary’s order. [da Educação] during the election campaign, which for us is a lack of respect,” said Alicia Teixeira, denying that the educational situation in Madeira is better than in the rest of the country.
The candidate also emphasized that the state “prohibits companies from doing something that they then apply to their employees, in this particular case, teachers.”
“Prohibits companies from entering into contracts for more than two years, [ou seja] If such a contract exists, it must be binding. This doesn’t happen to teachers. It prohibits companies from transferring their employees to another location without the consent or approval of either the employee or the faculty,” he said.
Madeira’s legislative assembly will take place on May 26, with 14 candidates vying for 47 seats in the regional parliament in a single constituency.
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).
As of Tuesday, 254,522 voters were registered to vote, according to the Interior Ministry.
The early elections will take place eight months after the last regional legislative elections, after the President of the Republic dissolved the Parliament of Madeira following the political crisis provoked in January, when the leader of the regional government (PSD/CDU-PP), Miguel Albuquerque, was named as a defendant in the process, in during which suspicions of corruption are being investigated.
In September 2023, the PSD/SDS coalition won without an absolute majority and elected 23 deputies. The PS received 11 mandates, the JPP five, Cega four, and the CDU, IL, PAN (which signed an agreement on parliamentary influence with the Social Democrats) and BE received one mandate each.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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