JPP/Madeira announced this Sunday that it will file a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office regarding the statements of former PSD deputy Sérgio Marques and the alleged “fabricated works” in the region.
“In light of these serious statements recently made public by senior PSD leaders regarding regional political and economic power, which likely constitute several crimes, we are going to file a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office this week,” stated the secretary general of the JPP.
Élvio Sousa spoke at the closing of the VI national congress of the Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP) that took place this weekend in the city of Santa Cruz, Madeira, under the motto “Forward. Without fear!”.
Speaking to Diário de Notícias, the then deputy elected to the Assembly of the Republic by the Madeira Circle, Sérgio Marques, spoke of alleged “works invented from 2000”, when Alberto João Jardim (PSD) was president of the executive of Madeira, and economic groups that “they grew up with the ‘Garden Finger'”.
Sérgio Marques noted that the administration of Jardim (predecessor of the current president, Miguel Albuquerque) “was fantastic until 2000” but believed that “they started [depois] inventing works, they wanted to continue with the same government plan, the same line, unnecessary works, that logic of development companies, all those crazy investments made by development companies”.
Following these statements, Sérgio Marques resigned from his mandate in the Assembly of the Republic and left the PSD/Madeira regional political commission.
Élvio Sousa, who is also a JPP deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, believed that “the past week has been black for the PSD and for the President of the Government, Miguel Albuquerque”.
He added that Miguel Albuquerque was also “condemned by the court to [ao JPP] a series of expenses he made during a princely trip to Venezuela”, totaling 110 thousand euros, which he classified as “a disgrace”.
The official added that it was followed by the acknowledgment “from the Santa Cruz Local Government Court to receive the property tax (IMI) payment from the concession airport.”
Élvio Sousa pressed the criticism that Madeira was “under the feet of the monopolies for 600 years” and the “centralism that only remembers the Autonomous Regions for some adversity”.
In turn, the president of JPP/Madeira criticized the situation of “democratic aberration” that the PSD-ruled region has experienced for more than four decades, pointing out that the party has already proven to be an alternative in the archipelago.
Filipe Sousa stressed that this party force is “inevitable today in the regional political system” and that the administration of the municipality of Santa Cruz shows that “it has what it takes to be in power” in Madeira and manages to fight against the economic powers installed
“On the one hand, we have a power tied to the major economic groups, but the truth is that we have freed Santa Cruz from that web,” he stressed, adding that the party that “showed that the democratic alternative works” .
The JPP has in its origins a citizens’ movement that was born in April 2009 in the municipality of Santa Cruz. In 2013 she won the local authorities with an absolute majority and removed the PSD from the administration in this municipality that has always been in the hands of the PSD.
In the 2015 regional parliamentary election, it became the 21st national party, succeeding in electing five deputies to Madeira’s parliament, receiving 13,299 votes (10.34% of the vote). Currently, the JPP has a representation of three deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.
Source: DN
