The head of the CDU list (PCP/PEV) in Madeira, Edgar Silva, appeared this Sunday confident in what he considers a step “towards bigger and better democracy” in the region.
“Here in this school, which has many participants, it is too early to have indicators regarding the mobilization of people to actively participate in the electoral act, but I am confident that this will be an important step in this region. so that we can have more and better democracy,” said Edgar Silva.
Edgar Silva spoke with Lusa after voting at a polling station in the parish of Santa Luzia, located in Escola Secundária Francisco Franco, in the center of Funchal.
The CDU’s regional coordinator also reiterated his hope that this Sunday’s elections “will lead to improved conditions so that the autonomous region of Madeira can have the prospect of a bigger and better democracy in the future.”
More than 254 thousand voters are called to vote this Sunday and 14 candidates are presented to form a new parliament and a new government. The single constituency election is contesting 47 seats in the region’s Legislative Assembly, and according to the Interior Ministry, 254,522 voters are registered to vote, of which 249,075 on Madeira Island and 5,447 on Madeira Island. Porto Santo island.
292 polling stations located in 54 districts of 11 municipalities of the archipelago are open from 8:00 to 19:00.
The race involves a coalition and 13 individual parties. Compared to the 2023 regional elections, the only difference in terms of the competing parties is the fact that the SDP and SDS-NP (which governed together in the last two legislatures) are represented on different lists when they voted together last year.
This Sunday’s early elections will take place eight months after the last regional legislative elections, after the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, dissolved Madeira’s parliament following a political crisis triggered in January by the leader of the Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque was named as a defendant in an investigation into allegations of corruption.
The executive director has been in control ever since. In the last legislature, the Legislative Assembly of Madeira consisted of 20 representatives from the PSD, three from the SDS-PP, 11 from the PS, five from the JPP and four from Chegi. The CDU, BE, PAN and IL took one seat each.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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