The leader of the CDS-PP/Madeira affirmed that the party is committed to electoral victory in coalition with the PSD and defended that the party’s deputies in the regional parliament present a proposal to review the drug law.
In 2023, the CDS “will form a pre-electoral coalition”, because the party has “value” and Madeira “needs that political strength to guarantee comprehensive development”, he said.
Rui Barreto was speaking at the party’s Christmas dinner, which took place in Funchal.
The also Secretary of Economy of the Madeira government, in which the party is part of the coalition with the PSD, has indicated that “the objective is to guarantee victory in the next regional elections”, highlighting, one year after the end of the current legislature, which “has been challenging but deeply rewarding.”
“This is because the CDS has always been a competent party in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. It is a compromise party and has done a decent job in the Government, in the Presidency of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, in the two Regional Secretariats [Economia e a do Mar e das Pescas]in the departments where all have been competent in the exercise of their functions”, he opined.
Rui Barreto said he was “proud to lead a party that recognizes itself as competent, that knows how to honor the word commitment and that is a focus of stability and confidence in governance and in the future of the Region.”
The official also asked the two CDS deputies in the Madeira Legislative Assembly for the party “to make a basic proposal to revise the drug law and present it to the Assembly of the Republic.”
Rui Barreto addressed the problem of the consumption of psychoactive substances in the Region, stressing that the CDS-PP must “make its contribution” in a situation that has been “alarming Madeirans”.
“A party serves to act, to be attentive and to seek solutions. Our goal is to work at three levels: prevention plan in schools; creation of a multidisciplinary therapeutic community to prevent the risk of recidivism and act from the legal point of view, ”she argued.
The president of the Regional Government and leader of the PSD/Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, has defended in recent days the need to change the law to allow the “mandatory hospitalization” of drug addicts so that they can be treated.
In the fraternization that brought together, according to the organization, about 160 militants and supporters, Rui Barreto declared that CDS and PSD “worked from an early age on the convergence of the government program, they contributed to the union in government action.”
“Today we look at the Government [Regional] and we see the strength of the collective”, he said, arguing that “if it were not for the cohesion and commitment within the Executive” it would not have been possible “to overcome a pandemic, nor to be able to overcome the adversities of a war in Europe”.
Rui Barreto highlighted that “doing politics means looking socially, being humble, involving society to improve by deciding and acting in a fair and responsible manner” and listed various measures adopted such as maintaining the prices of social subscriptions for the fifth consecutive year, the housing commitment and in the primary sectors.
He spoke of investment in health, highlighting the completion of the works of the Madeira University Hospital, which he considered “the largest infrastructure of the decade, which will bring the best technology and a better service in favor of quality and assistance to all Madeirans already all those who visit us”, complementing that “this is also due to the contribution of the party to the Government [Regional]????????
In the other regional secretariat supervised by the CDS, that of the Sea and Fisheries, he mentioned that, in 2023, it will respond “to a desire of the fishing community, which will be the long-awaited renewal of the swordfish fleet, an old demand” of the centrists.
Source: Observadora
