João Jardim: “You guys are the ones who have a drama, with people dying. And a Government playing kindergarten”

Former president of the Regional Government of Madeira criticizes Miguel Albuquerque but finds it “strange that we are still in the PIDE days”.

Alberto João Jardim was invited to talk about what was new in Madeira, but quickly diverted the topic.

“This political impasse is not so dramatic like what’s going on there continent, in which some Portuguese died because of a strike law and a political system that need to be revised“.

In this interview with , the former president of the Madeira Regional Government was referring to the problems in INEM.

And he did not spare the “political actors on the continent”, who are “ play at school” and to see “who is guilty”.

“O system has to be changed. Full stop. You have a strike law that, any day, the police go on strike and everyone in Rossio gets killed, the firefighters go on strike and the Leiria pine forest burns down.”

“I recommend a constitutional amendment and have a truly democratic political system“, he suggested, refusing to recommend the dismissal of the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins.

In relation to Madeira, Alberto João Jardim thinks that “Justice doesn’t work” and that suspicions are being raised based on anonymous reports: “I find it very strange that if you are still in PIDE time: people have already realized that an anonymous complaint can trigger political processes and they create anonymous complaints, tarnishing people’s names.”

The social democratic history considers that the PSD is “fractional” due to “many interests”repeating that Pedro Passos Coelho I wanted to push him away.

“When I saw that my party was broken, I decided to leave because the role of a leader is to unite the party“, he shot, before criticizing Miguel Albuquerque: “Your defect is that didn’t know how to unite the party“.

If the problem is Miguel Albuquerque, “then we all have to consider that Miguel Albuquerque has to leavebut to come out on top and leave with all dignity, without being left aside”, he claimed, repeating that first the PSD problem must be “resolved”.

But João Jardim does not suggest any successor to the current leader of the Madeiran Government: “I’m not getting involved in that. It didn’t look good, that was adding fuel to the fire.”

But, if there is elections, “No one should be afraid. I would even like there to be elections if the PSD-Madeira united and became stable again”, he replied.

Even with so many problems in the PSD in Madeira – highlighted the “dependency allowance” – the PS did not get “even one more deputy” in the local elections because the Madeirans “do not accept” this opposition.