Regional Budget for 2025 rejected

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The mess of this government and ALL the political parties continues, and so will do, as nothing gets sorted out.

In the mean time the island is being destroyed under their eyes, over tourism, to many cars, especially rent a cars. The population are out-priced, and can’t afford to live any more, so on and so on. More and more of the younger population are leaving, and being replaced, especially by Nepalese.

They are making more and more money with all these new taxes for Tourism, and nothing is being improved, or put to help the local population.

I hear all this daily from Madeirans, but my first reaction is, you still vote the same corrupt party in.

This government does not want to help the Madeirans. It only wants those with money, and Albuquerque is only interested in those with money to spend and invest.

Rant over….

Ohh just to add its not just here, coming back from Porto , I can honestly say I think we were served a couple of times by portuguse in the bars and restaurants, in the week we were there.

From Diário Notícias

The Budget and Plan for 2025 were rejected with votes against from PS, JPP, CH, IL and PAN and votes in favor from PSD and CDS.

This means that things started will probable not get finished on time with bigger delays, and the minimum pay increase will not happen for months now.

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8 Responses

  1. Hi Toby
    My wife and I have been coming to madeira for the last 17 years
    We love the place and the madeiran people.
    However it does look like this year there has been an increase in traffic.
    And I have noticed a lot don’t keep to the speed limit. Especially the motorbikes.
    And they are getting noisier.
    We were nearly knocked down by a motorbike at the monumental zebra by a bike. Going too fast.
    This is sad to see.
    I haven’t seen any presence of police enforcing the speed restrictions.
    We will be back next year.
    Keep up the good work.
    Derek

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  2. I’m a UK resident in Portugal and I’ve been priced out of Madeira – I move to the mainland next month – so how those native to the island are supposed to cope I can’t imagine. I did find the continental Portuguese equally gloomy about their own economic prospects – and those of their children. Although the Portuguese economy continues to improve, people on the mainland aren’t seeing it in their disposable income – so exactly the same as here. The problem with Madeira politics is basically that the scale of the island warrants little more than a town council but its politicians want all the trappings of a nation state – distracting immensely from the relatively straightforward job at hand.

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    1. I was in the city of Porto, so expected it to be expensive, I was thinking the same as Funchal, but it was a lot more , and minimum wage on the mainland is a little less than Madeira, so it’s very difficult for all .

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      1. If you go a little bit further out it’s not quite so bad – even Gaia’s less expensive (though catching up). But of course you also have to factor in the cost of winter heating and a possibly long commute. But it’s the surging accommodation costs that are really going to be difficult for Madeirans. I was looking at a 50-60% rent increase to stay compared with a 10-15% reduction if I left. Differences in other costs are almost insignificant in that calculation.

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      2. All of this will not change.
        There has to be a radical change in attitudes within people (public, politicians, corporate bodies, etc.)
        ????

        Melvin

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    2. No council in Portugal has the powers to manage the health service. Nor the harbour and airport co-management. No council in Portugal has the powers to create its own educational system.

      So, although Madeira is a small sized island, its govenrnment needs to manage it as a country not as council. The only thing that it is not competence of the governement is Justice, Interior, Defense and Foreign affairs. All the rest works just like a country sAy Malta.

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  3. Don’t feel too lonely, the situation is very much the same in the UK. The politics are the same, the Labour Party have never left the country in a better financial state after being voted out, yet we still believe they will change. Be happy you don’t have our energy costs.

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