Prime Minister congratulates Miguel Albuquerque and wishes him “good work”

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The Prime Minister, António Costa, today congratulated the President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, on the results achieved by the PSD/CDS coalition in the regional elections and wished him “continuation of the good work”.

This position is contained in a note released by António Costa’s office, after the PSD/CDS-PP coalition had won the regional legislative elections in Madeira, although an absolute majority had failed by one deputy.

“The Prime Minister congratulated the President of the Regional Government of Madeira on the electoral result achieved today, with wishes for continued good work in favor of the region and the country”, states the same note.

According to information provided by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the social democrats and centrists obtained 43.13% of the votes and 23 seats in the regional parliament, made up of a total of 47 deputies.

Four years ago, the PSD elected 21 deputies, losing for the first time the absolute majority it had held since 1976, and formed a coalition government with the CDS-PP (three deputies).

The PS, the biggest force in the opposition, registered a sharp decline compared to the last electoral act for the regional regions of Madeira. It elected 11 deputies, having obtained 28,844 votes, corresponding to 21.30%.

In the last regional elections, in 2019, the PS obtained 35.76% of the votes, obtaining 19 deputies for the Legislative Assembly.

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3 Responses

  1. Well Costa gone to coast complete it is a shame that he cant put the same work effort in mainland gone to comfortable staying in power . Resolve habitation problems the teachers problems and lack of them also the doctors and many other things that need to be improved .

  2. Isabella,
    The Golden Visa, interest rates, and inflation all contribute the the habitation issues and we could all agree that things should have been thought through. The teaching profession has been trending down across many locations. Do you think the approval, construction, and opening of a new teaching hospital is a way that the government can address the lack of doctors?

    1. Well I know all that yes the supposed GP from heath centres are going to someone else and many of them are getting retired and even abandoning the health centres and going private and also they have the same problem of housing . Like my mother’s GP in Madeira, she retired and opened a private surgery where many of the patients go to her like my mother . And the teachers are the same thing. I know the situation very well. My sisters are teachers in secondary schools, one in Santa Cruz where the Madeira Government did recognize the years of service gradually, not like in the mainland. Where the Coast government still doesn’t want to recognize the full years of service of many teachers that will affect their pensions in the future. The other big problem for the teachers is many of them are allocated to areas far away from the area where they live and many of them are obliged to rent small rooms to manage to live in the area that was allocated to them and many times only seeing the family not often . And that is the main reason that in the mainland the teachers have been on strike for the years of service for pension and the allocated areas that they send to teach and lack of rental and housing . Another is there is a lack of teachers. Many of them are retiring and working beyond the retirement age. There are many schools in the mainland where teachers of certain disciplines are missing . And there are many young people that don’t want to go into teaching in schools at all and the teacher union did alert the Minister of Education for this problem that has been aggravate over the years and it is getting worse .

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