The party together for the people (JPP) elected for the first time a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic. Filipe Sousa was elected by the Electoral Circle of Madeira.
O JPP got an unprecedented place in Parliamentafter increasing the number of votes over almost three thousand last year in the Madeira’s electoral circle.
Born as a regional movement, the JPP presented lists in most electoral circles, but it was in Madeira that he got the best result, with 12.32 % (17,115 votes).
Now, Filipe Sousa was elected Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic.
From Santa Cruz to Parliament
It was in the municipality of Santa Cruz that JPP obtained the best national result of these legislatures, with 24.59 % and 5,759 votes, only behind AD.
In the rest of the region’s municipalities, the maximum he got was a third place in Calheta, being from the podium in the remaining municipalities.
In 2013, the movement together for the people presented itself as center-left And he first competed for some elections, with Filipe Sousa as a head-to-header for the Santa Cruz Chamber, who won with an absolute majority, in a context of defeats of the PSD in the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
In 2014, the movement became a party and competed in the 2015 legislative elections with a list in the region that obtained 6.93% (8,671 votes), fourth, following the PSD, PS and BE and ahead of the CDS.
In 2019, he had fewer votes (7,125 votes, 5.49%), but kept fourth place, with the CDS being third.
In 2022, JPP exceeded the first vote (8721 votes), with 6.86% of the results and occupying third place in the region.
The rise of the arrival relegated in 2024 JPP for fourth place, but being on the edge of the election (9.58% and 14,344 votes).
The AD-PSD/CDS coalition is the most voted political force in today’s legislative elections, when the provisional results were cleared, followed by the PS and the arrival, according to data from the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs-Electoral Administration at 22:10.
“Let’s do everything to bring this community project to the whole country”said Filipe Sousa, in a quick reaction to TVI, after knowing that he was going to enter Parliament.
