The president of the CDS-PP/Madeira, Rui Barreto, considered this Friday that the coalition of the two parties in the Regional Government has been “virtuous” and “annoys the opposition” because it ensures political stability in the region.
This is a coalition “which is virtuous, because it knew how to serve the interests of Madeirans and, precisely for this reason, it irritates the opposition”, said Rui Barreto at the opening of the PSD/CDS parliamentary sessions taking place in Funchal.
This meeting also marks the end of the III Legislative Session of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, with the return to plenary sessions scheduled for September 20.
The Madeiran centrist leader stressed that, in these three years of legislature, there is “a record of maturity, where each of the parties was able to set aside some partisan issues in the name of a greater value, which is to serve Madeira and the people of Madeira”.
Rui Barreto considered that stability has allowed the two parties in Madeira “to govern and fulfill a program that was abruptly interrupted by a pandemic.”
And it has been stability, cohesion and security that have allowed us to overcome adversity, a pandemic and now a war in Eastern Europe”, he added.
In the opinion of the regional Secretary for the Economy, “stability generates confidence, confidence generates investment, investment generates wealth and wealth creates jobs, and that has been the greatest value of this coalition”.
As far as parliament is concerned, the CDS leader says that “it has been an open day for everyone” and that “there has never been so much democratic and plural participation in a parliament”.
Rui Barreto also criticized what he called “political disorientation” of the PS, the largest opposition party in Madeira’s parliament (it occupies 19 of the 47 seats in the hemicycle).
They already vote against what they defend and that was made clear this week, when they voted against the Rectification Budget”, he underlined, arguing that “a party that for eight years did not know how to govern the city of Funchal is not capable of governing Madeira” .
In the opinion of the leader of the insular CDS-PP, in Madeira there are “two autonomist parties” and they are the two forces that “defend the deepening and consecration of autonomy”.
Two parties that have a clear and objective project for Madeira, which is to review the Constitution and the Regional Finance Law, which is out of step with Madeira’s challenges, and insist on the idea that if the Government of the Republic does not want to give us the means, unless it gives us instruments to be what we want to be”, he emphasized.
The regional secretary of Education, who is in charge of Parliamentary Affairs, Jorge Carvalho, also opened the work of the conference, who left the deputies a “message of permanent collaboration” between the two parties.
The official highlighted the climate of “closeness and the dialectic that was established with the different sectors of the Government [Regional] that has allowed to ‘shield’ the executive”.
Jorge Carvalho also highlighted “the cooperation, harmony and follow-up of the diplomas that are discussed in the Legislative Assembly, whether from the majority or from the opposition”, a situation that has been reinforced by the frequent trips of elements of the Regional Government to the insular parliament for the discussion of diplomas, debates and hearings.
The official mentioned that “there has been permanent attention to everything that is happening, which has allowed the Regional Government to focus on what governance is.”
This perspective between the executive and the deputies “was fundamental during the most complicated period of the pandemic, in which this harmony was important for decision-making,” he said.
In the Parliament of Madeira, the PSD has a representation of 21 deputies and the CDS of three.
Source: Observadora
