Miguel Albuquerque criticized the irresponsibility of the PS and JPP in refusing dialogue

The President of the Madeiran Government, Miguel Albuquerque, on Saturday accused the PS and the JPP of “total irresponsibility” for refusing to engage in dialogue to agree on a government programme for the region.

“I would like to highlight the circumstance of Chegi, in contrast to the PS and JPP, who took a position of complete irresponsibility, those who talked so much about dialogue that an absolute majority was harmful (…) when the result of the elections transforms the political situation. framework in need of dialogue, they are the first to refuse dialogue, not even sitting down with the winning side to discuss a series of proposals of public interest,” said Madeira’s chief executive.

Miguel Albuquerque spoke to journalists during his visit to the Ponta do Pargo golf course in the municipality of Calheta, which represents an investment of 12ME, a space that, according to him, “makes the western zone a pole of great attraction” and will be “one of the most attractive in Europe” because it is located next to a cliff and “will bring thousands and thousands of practitioners to Madeira”.

Asked about the meetings that are still taking place between the regional government and Chega to agree on a government program as the party insists on removing Miguel Albuquerque from office, the Madeira ruler stressed that they are “focused on solving this problem.”

“I must emphasize that both CDS and IL and PAN and Chega took the position of democratic responsibility, democratic humility, sat down at the negotiating table and talked about a program of public interest,” he said.

On Monday, the regional government, represented by the ministers of education (Jorge Carvalho) and finance (Rogerio Gouveia), as well as the chief of staff of the island’s executive president, Rui Abreu, held meetings with PAN deputies. IL, CDS-PP and Chega to agree on government program measures.

The other parties with seats in parliament, PS and JPP, rejected the invitation to negotiate the approval of this document, which also makes the regional budget impossible, forcing the region to be governed under the twelfth-part regime.

This round took place after the president of the regional executive decided last week to withdraw the proposal for the government programme that was discussed two days ago in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, as it was announced after the failure of a round of meetings with different parties.

PS, JPP and Chega, which together have 24 MPs out of the 47 members that make up the Madeiran Parliament (meaning an absolute majority), said they would vote against the motion the following day.

After the meetings, the single deputies of PAN and IL concluded the negotiations by agreeing on the measures to be integrated.

Liberal Nuno Morna announced he would abstain, while People-Animals-Nature MP Monica Freitas said she would make the program viable depending on the vote on the motion.

The SDS-PP, which has two MPs, signed a parliamentary protection agreement with the SDP after the elections.

Today, Miguel Albuquerque said that “the problem is simple” and it is necessary to “understand the will of the people of Madeira and Porto Santo.”

According to the regional leader, “people want to see their lives resolved, they want a State Program, they want a budget, because they know, and, well, because they have folk wisdom, that the worst that can happen is that we end up in a political deadlock, which has consequences for the economy, for the income and employment of citizens.”

Regarding the fact that he was not present at the negotiations, he said that “everything is going according to plan.”

In the early regional elections on 26 May, the SDP elected 19 MPs, giving it five terms to achieve an absolute majority (which requires 24), the PS got 11, the AKP got nine, Čega got four and the SDS-NP got two, while the IL and PAN each elected one MP.