“We, in this field, are in agreement and in tune with the President of the Republic, whether in the reasons or in the decisions. And the President of the Republic conveyed to us his intention to dissolve the Regional Assembly and to call elections for the May 26th. And, therefore, we leave here satisfied”, he stated.
After listening to the nine political parties, the head of state meets with the State Council.
This set of hearings takes place after the President of the Republic regained, at the beginning of the week, the power to dissolve the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, as six months have already passed since the regional elections of September 24th, which the PSD/ CDS-PP won without an absolute majority.
The Regional Government of Madeira has been in management since the beginning of February, after the president of the executive, the social democrat Miguel Albuquerque, asked to resign from his position after being accused as part of a process in which suspicions of corruption in the archipelago.
Following the dismissal of Miguel Albuquerque, formally accepted on February 5th and which led to the fall of the PSD/CDS-PP executive, the representative of the Republic, Ireneu Barreto, announced that he would keep the Government of Madeira in management until the head of State decide whether to dissolve the Legislative Assembly.
It is to make this decision that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa hears today from the parties represented in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira and the Council of State, as provided for in the Fundamental Law for the dissolution of the regional parliament.
