Candidate obtained a vote of over 54%
Miguel Albuquerque was re-elected this Thursday as president of PSD Madeira, beating competition from Manuel António Correia.
The candidate himself confirmed his re-election, speaking of a vote higher than 54%. A victory of 2,246 votes against 1,854, in a universe of 4,388 registered voters, indicated the party secretariat.
The president of the Regional Government of Madeira, who resigned following the case investigating a corruption scheme in the archipelago, will try again to be elected to the position.
The internal elections took place between 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm, in the municipal and parish headquarters of the PSD spread across the 11 municipalities of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, with 4,388 activists able to vote, totaling more than 12 thousand.
This was the second time that Miguel Albuquerque beat Manuel António Correia in an internal dispute for the party presidency, with the first confrontation taking place in 2014, to choose the successor to the historic leader Alberto João Jardim.
At the time, Albuquerque defeated Manuel António Correia, then regional secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources, in a second round, obtaining around 63% of the votes, and has remained the party’s leader to date, always running again without an opponent in the elections. internal.
Miguel Albuquerque, born on May 4, 1961 (62 years old) and born in Funchal, is a lawyer and has on his political CV the presidency of the Chamber of Funchal (1994-2013) and of the Regional Government of Madeira, since 2015.
He resigned on January 26, after the PAN’s only deputy refused to comply with the parliamentary influence agreement that guaranteed the absolute majority of the PSD/CDS coalition in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, following the process that investigates suspicions of corruption.
