A decade after arriving at the presidency of the Madeira Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque added another victory on Sunday and, despite having failed the absolute majority, reinforced the vote and won four more deputies.
Also, in what is the 15th consecutive victory of the party in Madeira since 1976the task of reaching the absolute majority and achieving the desired “stability” may be facilitated, as the CDS-PP, which already ruled with the PSD and which had a parliamentary incidence agreement with social democrats, was with a deputy.
Childhood, adolescence and the first steps in politics
Miguel Albuquerque is 63 years old, born on May 4, 1961, and was considered for a few years the ‘Delfim’ of Alberto João Jardim, the historic social democratic leader with whom he would eventually enter the ‘collision route’ before the leadership of PSD/Madeira and the Government of the Archipelago.
Educated by the maternal grandparents, the “very happy childhood” was passed on a Thursday, with brother Francisco, who would later become a winemaker. From maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Machado, a resistant anti -fascist who was stuck in Sao Tome and Cape Verde during the Estado Novo, received the “great influence” that led him to follow the path of politics.
But beyond political influence, from grandparents received other teachings such as the importance of the “school of life”, which is why in summer the albuquerque brothers would work.
Even today a great music connoisseur, namely Jazz, at the age of 16 Miguel Albuquerque also started playing piano at hotels during the holidays. Later, the band “Old Hotels” came up, with a group of friends.
The law degree was taken in Lisbon, returning at the end to Madeira, where he worked between 1986 and 1992, with an open office in Funchal, specializing in the areas of Criminal and Family Law.
At the same time, Miguel Albuquerque took his first steps in politics, in a premiere not yet on the PSD, but in the Mário Soares support movement in the 1986 presidentials.
Two years later, it was Elected regional deputy, already in the PSD listsremaining as a social democratic parliamentary also in the next legislature. In 1990, it also arrived at the leadership of JSD/Madeiraposition he held for two years, followed by the election as Deputy Secretary-General of PSD/Madeira (1992-1995).
In 1993 he abandoned law to compete as number two on the PSD/Madeira list to the Funchal City Council headed by Vergílio Pereira, who replaced the following year after the mayor fired on a “collision route” with the then president of the Regional Government due to disagreements about transfers to the municipality.
After Win with most municipalities of 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2009abandoned the presidency of the Funchal Chamber in 1993, due to the law of limitation of mandates. At that time he returned to law, devoting himself to the area of business law.
While at the head of the largest Madeiran municipality was also president of the (1994-2002), vice president of PSD/Madeira and responsible for the Jurisdiction Council of the party’s regional structure, a position to which he resigned, in April 2011, for disagreeing with the followed political line.
Albuquerque was the first to question Alberto João Jardim’s 40th anniversary
It was, moreover, at the end of the mandate in the presidency of the Funchal Chamber that the climate of crispar with the then president of the Regional Government and PSD/Madeira was accentuated, with Miguel Albuquerque being the first to question Alberto João Jardim’s 40 -year lead, in 2012, of which he defeated 142 votes.
In December 2014, he competed again for the leadership of PSD/Madeira, presenting himself as one of six candidates for the succession of Garden. On the second lap beat Manuel António Correia, with 64% of the votes, taking office as President of Madeiran Social Democrats on January 10, 2015.
In what considered to have been “a natural process”, reached the presidency of the government of Madeira on April 20, 2015after beating the regional of March 29, the only time it was able to reach an absolute majority.
Regional Swimming records, body care and “gastronomic experiences that have been a success”
Politics has gathering other passions over the years, such as porcelain or, the best known pieces of roses. It even had one of the largest roseirals in Europe, in the North Zone of Madeira Island, with a collection of about 17 thousand roseiras of over 1,700 species.
The taste for horticulture even led to the “head of the Quinta da Vigia gardeners”, the official residence of the president of the Regional Government.
Father of six children and grandfather of two granddaughters, Miguel Albuquerque is considered by friends as “a good fork”, but continues to cultivate the taste for sport that comes from the days when regional swimming records beat and trained in the hotel pools for lack of sports infrastructure.
Today, the dives at sea are still part of their daily lives, but at the end of the year he also returned to participate in the São Silvestre Race of Funchal.
The muscle part is not neglected either with gym exercises, because, as he recently wrote on social networks, “maintaining focus and taking care of balance is essential, both in training and everyday life.”
But, in The followers of Miguel Albuquerque can also see photos of the family, the dog Sissi – who receive him with “affection and energy” every day on the fifth watch – or confirm the “gastronomic experiences” of the president of the regional government, who started with a joke on Valentine’s Day, but have been revealed “a great success”.
“I like to play piano, I like art, read and travel. But also cook,” he wrote in the caption of the video he published on February 14 to prepare a “Spaghetti Alla Putaneca”.
Days later the ““,” A French egg recipe “that has been” successful and very simple “and, more recently, a quiche of tuna and spinach,” a very tasty and very economical dish. “
“I start to find tranquility in gastronomic experiences,” he wrote in the video caption he shared earlier this week, still far from knowing the results of Sunday’s elections, which, although they have not assured him of an absolute majority, should bring more tranquility than the current minority executive.
