Gregório Cunha / Lusa
Miguel Albuquerque can reach 24 deputies, enough to rule alone. Falling socialists.
Nothing changes in Madeira: o PSD or to win Again the legislative elections, which took place this Sunday.
The projection of the Catholic University for RTP, released at 19h (when the polls closed), puts the PSD between 41% and 46%, or between 21 and 24 deputies.
In practice, this puts Miguel Albuquerque again as president of the regional government and probably with absolute majority – They are accurate precisely 24 in the regional parliament to have absolute majority.
“These are very positive numbers,” admitted the PSD in the first reaction – even if he has 21 deputies (the lower projection) is more than the current 19 deputies.
PSD’s list head to Madeira’s regional elections, Miguel Albuquerque, had already said that if social democrats could not win with “a comfortable majority”, the future and autonomy of the archipelago would be at question.
O PS is falling: with 14%-18%, apparently will be only the third most voted party, between 7 and 10 deputies; o JPP now appears in second place (18%-22%) with estimate of between 9 and 12 deputies.
Already the He arrives appears in fourth place, probably between 2 and 4 deputies.
CDS e IL They may be without representation or, at most, with 2 deputies. CDU, Pan e be They risk staying out – or with 1 deputy at most.
In the scenario set by the Catholic University, the abstention It will be between 41% and 47% – is within the abstention of 46.60% last year.
For these legislative elections of Madeira, the third in about a year and a half, 14 applications competed in the 47 seats in the Regional Parliament, in a single circle: CDU (PCP/PEV), PSD, Free, JPP, New Right, Pan, Madeira Strength (PTP/MPT/RIR), PS, IL, PPM, BE, Aca, ADN and CDS-PP.
Advance elections occur 10 months after the previous ones, following the approval of a censorship motion presented by the arrival – which justified it with judicial investigations involving members of the Regional Government, including the president, Miguel Albuquerque (PSD) – and the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly by the President of the Republic.
The PSD had so far 19 regional elected, PS 11, JPP nine, arrives three and CDS-PP Two. Pan and Il have one seat each and there is still an independent deputy (former bud).
