{"id":63825,"date":"2024-03-22T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T07:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/?p=63825"},"modified":"2024-03-22T07:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T07:59:38","slug":"albuquerque-re-elected-as-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/albuquerque-re-elected-as-party-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque re-elected as party leader","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8230; but loses Funchal majority<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/03\/image-60-360x345.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63826 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/03\/image-60-360x345.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63826\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-60-360x345.png 360w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-60-500x479.png 500w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-60.png 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current leader of the PSD\/Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, won the internal elections, defeating his opponent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/psd-madeira-presidential-race-heats-up\/\">Manuel Ant\u00f3nio Correia<\/a>, by 2,246 votes to 1,854, out of 4,388 registered voters, the party secretariat announced yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The election took place today in the wake of the political crisis caused by the resignation of Miguel Albuquerque as president of the regional government (what was the PSD\/CDS-PP coalition) in January, after he was indicted in a judicial investigation into suspected corruption in the archipelago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">Just over 50% of party members vote for Albuquerque<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internal elections took place between 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in the PSD\u2019s municipal and parish offices spread across the <a href=\"https:\/\/repositorio.ual.pt\/bitstream\/11144\/4083\/6\/EP14-RobertoRodrigues_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 municipalities of the Autonomous Region of Madeira<\/a>, with 4,388 militants able to vote, out of a total of more than 12,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victory, achieved with a difference of 388 votes, was built outside the capital of Madeira, where Manuel Ant\u00f3nio Correia triumphed in eight of the ten parishes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/albuquerque-resigns-finally\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/03\/image-62-334x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63828 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/03\/image-62-334x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63828\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-62-334x360.png 334w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-62.png 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the second time that Miguel Albuquerque beat Manuel Ant\u00f3nio Correia in an internal dispute for the party presidency, the first having taken place in 2014 to choose the successor to historic leader Alberto Jo\u00e3o Jardim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time, Albuquerque defeated Manuel Ant\u00f3nio 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\u2019s leader until now, always running again without an opponent in the internal elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miguel Albuquerque, born on May 4, 1961 (62 years old) and a native of Funchal, is a lawyer and has in his political curriculum the presidency of the Funchal City Council (1994-2013) and of the Regional Government of Madeira, since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He resigned on January 26, after the sole PAN member refused to comply with the parliamentary incidence agreement that guaranteed the PSD\/CDS coalition an absolute majority in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, following the process that investigates suspicions of corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but loses Funchal majority The current leader of the PSD\/Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, won the internal elections, defeating his opponent, Manuel Ant\u00f3nio Correia, by 2,246 votes to 1,854, out of 4,388 registered voters, the party secretariat announced yesterday. The election took place today in the wake of the political crisis caused by the resignation of Miguel Albuquerque as president of the regional government (what was the PSD\/CDS-PP coalition) in January, after he was indicted in a judicial investigation into suspected corruption in the archipelago. Just over 50% of party members vote for Albuquerque The internal elections took place between 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in the PSD\u2019s municipal and parish offices spread across the 11 municipalities of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, with 4,388 militants able to vote, out of a total of more than 12,000. The victory, achieved with a difference of 388 votes, was built outside the capital of Madeira, where Manuel Ant\u00f3nio Correia triumphed in eight of the ten parishes. This was the second time that Miguel Albuquerque beat Manuel Ant\u00f3nio Correia in an internal dispute for the party presidency, the first having taken place in 2014 to choose the successor to historic leader Alberto Jo\u00e3o Jardim. At the time, Albuquerque defeated Manuel Ant\u00f3nio 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\u2019s leader until now, always running again without an opponent in the internal elections. Miguel Albuquerque, born on May 4, 1961 (62 years old) and a native of Funchal, is a lawyer and has in his political curriculum the presidency of the Funchal City Council (1994-2013) and of the Regional Government of Madeira, since 2015. He resigned on January 26, after the sole PAN member refused to comply with the parliamentary incidence agreement that guaranteed the PSD\/CDS coalition an absolute majority in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, following the process that investigates suspicions of corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":5,"featured_media":62598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-regional-people-headlines","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}