Alberto João Jardim said on Monday that he understood the speech of PSD/Madeira leader Miguel Albuquerque, in which he emphasized that he does not govern the region without an absolute majority, and believed that Luís Montenegro “proves to be very new ”.
‘I’ve always understood that [Albuquerque] What he meant when he talked about stepping down was having an absolute majority government. Madeira is a parliamentary system. I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It is true that the result of the coalition is not famous, but there is no government solution at the moment without the PSD,” emphasized the president of the regional government of Madeira between 1978 and 2015 in the interview published by the daily.
In Sunday’s regional elections, the coalition formed by PSD and CDS-PP won 43.13% of the votes and elected 23 of the 47 deputies, which is one short of an absolute majority.
Jardim says that it should not have gotten to the point where a substitute had to be invited who had been chosen by another political force that had participated in the elections to form a majority, namely Mónica Freitas of the PAN, or Nuno Morna of the Liberal Initiative. And he also assured that he did not understand the slogan “Montenegro 1 – Costa 0”, which the national leader of the PSD uttered in the speech in the aftermath of the regional elections.
Despite considering Luís Montenegro “an intellectually honest person”, the former president of the government of Madeira believes that the national leader of the Social Democrats “turns out to be very new”, because he has not had a “cheerful speech”, because in his According to Jardim there was nothing to celebrate.
“There was no celebration because there was no victory. This was the election where everyone lost. It is a punishment for the PSD and the PS. It is the uprising of the middle class. These people are tired of the lack of courage to change the system. ” he emphasized.
Alberto João Jardim also believed that the central bloc of the Portuguese political system should have “a patriotic feeling” to change the constitutional system 50 years after April 25, instead of “playing games” with “the antics that the constitutional revision proposals”. delivered to the Assembly of the Republic.
The former PSD/Madeira leader also considered the presence of national leaders in regional elections as humiliating for the autonomous region and demanded autonomy with appropriate solutions, which necessarily include the regionalization of Portugal.
The coalition formed by PSD and CDS-PP was the most voted party in the regional parliamentary elections in Madeira on Sunday, electing 23 out of 47 deputies, followed by the PS, which elected 11 deputies, after losing eight compared to the 2019 elections ., the JPP five and Chega four, while the CDU, BE, PAN and IL each elected one deputy.
Source: DN
