The only deputy from the Liberal Initiative (IL) in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira this Wednesday considered that the government program should have been approved, stressing that the opposition has other mechanisms that could make the executive unworkable.
“Everyone has a solution for everything, and I would like a solution that we [IL] “We proposed something that was completely different” from the idea of the XV Program of the Regional Government, which was discussed in the last two days in the Madeira parliament, Nuno Morna told reporters at the Legislative Assembly of Funchal.
Nuno Morna spoke after the regional government’s president, Social Democrat Miguel Albuquerque, announced the decision to withdraw the proposal from the government program, admitting it could not be approved on Thursday.
The document will be rejected as PS, JPP and Chega have declared their vote against it. The three parties have a total of 24 deputies out of the 47 that make up the hemicycle, equivalent to an absolute majority.
Commenting on the decision of Miguel Albuquerque, a scenario that has never happened in the parliamentary life of the Madeira autonomy, the IL deputy emphasized that the party invited the opposition to skip the proposal of the Regional Government Program.
“This does not mean that the vote was “yes” and could mean “abstaining or walking out” during the vote, he said.
“Then in the budget [Regional] Soon this will be visible, and we will be able to do the same, and the region will have a government program, a budget, and soon after this, the parties that have a parliamentary group will have in their hands the instrument that was supposed to express a vote of no confidence.” , he asserted.
The only IL deputy also said that such a scenario could arise now or during the discussion of the next regional budget, “which is already in November,” and the regional government “will agree to it.”
Admitting that he was “convinced” that the regional government would withdraw the Program proposal during a meeting he held this afternoon with members of the executive and the PSD, Nuno Morna insisted that there are several mechanisms other than rejecting the document. and reported that he even spoke “several times” about the IL proposal with the socialists, but the PS “realized that he did not want to do this.”
Nuno Morna also insisted that he continues to “think that Miguel Albuquerque is the biggest destabilizing factor in all of this, he is the character that destabilizes,” as Chega had already defended.
“We also have problems with Albuquerque. We campaigned on Miguel Albuquerque saying, ‘No, it’s a no,’ and we acted on it,” he said.
Acknowledging that if the Social Democrats want to talk, the IL will be ready, the only MP stressed that the SDP “cannot simply say what it said when it highlighted individual measures from different programs and crammed them into its own program, which has a larger list events than last year.”
“Essentially, this is the same program, and it continues to be a list of measures. There are no details of when, where, how, why, who,” he added.
In early regional elections on May 26, the SDP elected 19 deputies, giving it five terms to achieve an absolute majority (which requires 24), the PS received 11, the AKP nine, Chega four and SDS-PP two. , and IL and PAN elected one deputy each.
After the elections, the PSD signed a parliamentary agreement with the Christian Democrats, but it still lacks an absolute majority. Both parties have a total of 21 seats.
Also after the vote, the PSI and the PPP (20 seats in total) announced an agreement to try to remove the PSD from power, but the representative of the Republic, Ireneu Barreto, realized that this was not viable and nominated Miguel Albuquerque. .
The May elections took place eight months after Madeira’s legislative elections on September 24, 2023, after the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, dissolved the Madeira Parliament following a political crisis that arose in January when Miguel Albuquerque was named as a defendant. in a case of alleged corruption.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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