According to voter registration data sent to Lusa this Monday, more than 254 thousand voters will be able to vote in the early elections for the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, which will take place on the 26th.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), as of May 11, “the date the voter list remains unchanged,” there were “254,522 registered voters” for the early elections to the regional legislative assembly, of which 249,075 were on the island. in Madeira and 5,447 people on the island of Porto Santo.
As for the regional legislative elections in 2023, according to the website of the General Secretariat of the MAI, more than 645 voters are registered, of which more than five thousand are on the island of Madeira and another hundred in Porto Santo.
These data refer to a comparison with those registered this year and the official final result of 253,877 voters in the 2023 vote, published in the Diário da República.
Also, according to data available on the website of the MAI General Secretariat, Funchal is the municipality with the largest number of voters with 104,858, followed by Santa Cruz with 39,912, Camara de Lobos with 32,586, Machico with 19,821 and Ribeira – Brava. , with 14,042. The municipality with the fewest registered voters is Porto Moniz with 3,003.
The parish with the largest number of voters is São Martinho in the municipality of Funchal with 26,556, followed in the same municipality by Santo António with 24,980, Caniço in Santa Cruz with 21,825, Camara de Lobos with 16,217 and Santa Maria. Mayor in Funchal has 11,878 people registered, while Ashadas da Cruz in Porto Moniz only has 190 people registered.
The election campaign for the early regional legislative elections in Madeira began on Sunday, with 14 candidates (13 individual parties and a coalition of two parties) taking part.
In the elections on the 26th, 47 seats in the regional legislature of Madeira will be up for grabs.
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, Liberal Initiative, React, Include, Reciclar (RIR), CDU. — Unitary Democratic Coalition (PCP/PEV), Chega, CDS People’s Party (CDS-PP), Land Party (MPT), Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD), People-Animals-Nature (PAN), Portuguese Labor Party (PTP) and Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP).
The events of May 26 occurred eight months after the last regional law was passed, after the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, dissolved the Madeira Parliament following a political crisis triggered in January when the leader of the regional government (CDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque, was named as a defendant. in a process that investigates suspicions of corruption.
The PSD has always ruled the archipelago and won 11 elections with an absolute majority between 1976 and 2015.
In the previous legislature, 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.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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