President acknowledges Madeira Day
The new-look Diario website reports that the President of the Republic stressed today that regional autonomy is “one of the happiest and most fruitful achievements of democratic Portugal”, considering that “it is an element of national cohesion” that “heals conflicts instead of fostering them”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa marked the Day of the Autonomous Region of Madeira and Madeiran Communities scattered around the world with a message published on the Presidency’s website, at a time when he was participating in a bilateral ceremony with the King of Spain, in Elvas and Badajoz , to mark the reopening of land borders between the two countries.
“Officially, the celebrations are restricted to the Autonomous Region, but, in substance, this is a celebration of the whole of Portugal. Because the regional autonomy, which we mark today, was one of the happiest and most fruitful achievements of democratic Portugal”, points out the head of state.
In the view of the President of the Republic, “the autonomy of Madeira and the Azores is an element of national cohesion, a feature of unity among the Portuguese, which unites rather than separates, which heals conflicts instead of fostering them”.
Interesting article to read for those people who reside in the UK but have a second property in Madeira that they use as a holiday home(and possibly rent out as an AL). I know it is based on Spain but the rules will be pan-EU so will most likely apply to Madeira too:–
https://www.thelocal.es/20200629/how-long-will-british-second-home-owners-in-spain-be-able-to-stay-after-brexit