The Madeiran government, led by Miguel Albuquerque, and Chega will hold talks this Monday on a possible understanding to make the Executive Programme and the regional budget viable. With four deputies, Chega holds the key to an absolute majority, but the regional structure is seething with political and personal tensions.
On election night, the newly elected Magna Costa and Francisco Gomes, a member of the Assembly of the Republic and candidate for regional leadership of the party, got into a verbal dispute. Magna Costa’s husband, a police officer, did not like it and grabbed Francisco Gomes by the neck. Between the option of removing Albuquerque to maintain loyalty to the anti-corruption ideology and the achievements and failures of Chega’s regional leader Miguel Castro, there is no internal consensus on the vote for the government program.
In the PSD, supporters of Manuel António, the losing candidate in the internal elections, have begun collecting signatures for an extraordinary congress in October.
Author: Egidio Carreira
Source: CM Jornal
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