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2025 Madeiran Regional Election
A snap regional election was held in Madeira on 23 March 2025, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Regions of Portugal, Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the Presidents of the Regional Government of Madeira, President of the Autonomous Region. This election, the third in just one year and a half, was called following the collapse of Albuquerque's government due to the approval of a motion of no confidence in December 2024. The Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD) won the election by a landslide, with more than 43 percent of the votes, but failed to win an absolute majority of its own by a narrow margin, electing 23 seats to the regional parliament, one short of a majority. The Together for the People (JPP) was the other big winner of the election, by becoming the second most voted party, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Madeira
The Legislative Assembly of Madeira () is the legislature of the Portuguese autonomous region of Madeira. The last regional election was held on 23 March 2025, won by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) with 62,059 votes (43.41% share). Powers and duties of the Assembly The Political and Administrative Statute of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, clearly states that the Legislative Assembly has the following powers: Political powers * Approve the Regional Government Program; * Approve the Regional Economic and Social Development Plan; * Approve the Regional Budget, including those of the autonomous regional funds and the investment programs of each regional secretariat; * Authorize the Regional Government to make internal and external loans and other medium and long-term credit operations in accordance with the Statute and the law; * Establish the maximum limit of guarantees to be granted by the Regional Government in each year; * Vote motions of confidence and censure to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autonomous Regions Of Portugal
The two Autonomous Regions of Portugal from 1999 () are the Azores (''Região Autónoma dos Açores'') and Madeira (). Together with Continental Portugal (''Portugal Continental''), they form the Portugal, Portuguese Republic. History The autonomous regions were established in 1976 in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution, which saw Portugal end its Portuguese Empire, colonial empire. Some areas, such as the Azores, Madeira and Macau, were deemed either impractical to decolonise or too close in ties to Continental Portugal to make independent. However, due to their distinct geography, economy, social and cultural situation, as well as historical aspirations of autonomy in Madeira and the Azores, the autonomous regions were formed. When formed in 1976, there were two autonomous regions - the Azores and Madeira. As for Portuguese Macau, Macau, in Asia, it remained a colony, with a higher degree of autonomy, when compared to Madeira and Azores, until it was Transfer of sovereig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Of No Confidence
A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion or vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office. The no-confidence vote is a defining constitutional element of a parliamentary system, in which the government's/executive's mandate rests upon the continued support (or at least non-opposition) of the majority in the legislature. Systems differ in whether such a motion may be directed against the prime minister, against the government (this could be a majority government or a minority government/coalition government), against individual cabinet ministers, against the cabinet as a whole, or some combination of the above. A censure motion is different from a no-confidence motion. In a parliamentary system, a vote of no confidence leads to the resignation of the prime minister and cabinet, or, depen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magna Costa
is an inflected form of the Latin word , , with cognates throughout the Indo-European languages, including English ''many'' and '' mega'' (the latter a doublet via Ancient Greek ()). It appears in many names and titles, including: Companies * Magna (bicycle company), bicycle brand of Dynacraft BSC * Magna Corporation, defunct American public company * Magna Entertainment Corp., North American gaming and horse racing company * Magna Home Entertainment, Australian entertainment distributor also known as Magna Pacific * Magna International, Canadian automotive supplier * Magna Publishing Group, American publisher of pornography * , automobile manufacturer in Graz, Austria Ancient Rome * , ancient Roman name for the areas of Southern Italy where Greek was widely spoken * (Carvoran), a now ruined Roman fort, also known as , at Carvoran, Northumberland, UK * , ancient Roman city in Libya * (), prominent woman from Anatolia during the Roman Empire People * Edith Scott Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regionalism (politics)
Regionalism is a political ideology that seeks to increase the political power, influence and self-determination of the people of one or more subnational regions. It focuses on the "development of a political or social system based on one or more" regions, and/or the national, normative, or economic interests of a specific region, group of regions or another subnational entity, gaining strength from or aiming to strengthen the "consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a homogeneous population", similarly to nationalism. More specifically, "regionalism refers to three distinct elements: movements demanding territorial autonomy within unitary states; the organization of the central state on a regional basis for the delivery of its policies including regional development policies; political decentralization and regional autonomy". Regions may be delineated by administrative divisions, culture, language and religion, among others. Regionalists' demands occur in "stron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Madeiran Regional Election
Regional elections were held in Madeira on 24 September 2023, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Regions of Portugal, Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the Presidents of the Regional Government of Madeira, President of the Autonomous Region. The incumbent president, Miguel Albuquerque from the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD), led a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party, and defended the dominance of the Social Democratic Party in the islands since 1976. The PSD and CDS–PP contested the election in a joint coalition. The "We are Madeira" coalition, between the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP), won the election with 43 percent of the votes but, despite polling predict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funchal
Funchal () officially Funchal City (), is the capital, largest city and a Municipality (Portugal), municipality in Portugal's Madeira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it the sixth largest city in Portugal. Because of its high cultural and historical value, Funchal is one of Portugal's main tourist attractions; it is also popular as a destination for New Year's Eve, and it is the leading Portuguese port on cruise liner dockings. Etymology The first settlers named their settlement Funchal after the abundant wild fennel that grew there. The name is formed from the Portuguese language, Portuguese word for fennel, ''funcho,'' and the suffix ''-al'', to denote "a plantation of fennel": History The settlement of Funchal began between 1420 and 1425. The island was divided into two Captaincy, captaincies''.'' The zones that would become the urbanized core of Funchal were founded by João Gonçalves Zarco who se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Madeiran Regional Election
Snap regional elections were held in Madeira on 26 May 2024, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the President of the Autonomous Region. Before the dissolution of the regional parliament, incumbent president Miguel Albuquerque, since 2015, from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), led a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party, with the parliamentary support of People Animals Nature. The Social Democrats defended their dominance in the islands, which they have held since 1976. The Social Democratic Party (PSD), marred in an ongoing corruption investigation, emerged, once again, as the winner with 36 percent of the votes, albeit losing one seat thus gathering 19 seats, but polling comfortably ahead of the second most voted party, the PS. The Socialist Party (PS) suffered another big def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Bloc (Portugal)
The Left Bloc ( , BE), colloquially shortened as O Bloco, is a political party in Portugal. A left-wing populist and democratic socialist party, it has been described as left-wing to far-left. It is currently led by Mariana Mortágua. History Formation and early history The Left Bloc was formed in 1999 by the merger of the Marxist People's Democratic Union, Trotskyist Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the democratic socialist Politics XXI. It has had full party status since its founding, yet the constituent groups have maintained their existence as individual political associations, retaining some levels of autonomy in a loose structure. In the 1999 legislative election the BE polled at 2%. In 2002 this rose to 3%. Louçã's leadership (1999–2012) In the 1999 election BE received 2.4% of the votes leading them to enter the Assembly of the Republic for the first time with 2 MPs for the Lisbon constituency. These representatives were Francisco Louçã and Ferna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitary Democratic Coalition
The Unitary Democratic Coalition (, CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party () and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" ( Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV). The coalition also integrates the political movement Democratic Intervention (). The coalition was formed in 1987 in order to run to the simultaneous legislative election and European Parliament election that were held on July 19 of that year. It achieved its best result in the 1987 elections both nationally and locally. From 1991 until 2019, the party consistently won between six and ten percent of the national vote in elections to the Assembly of the Republic until 2022 and 2024, in which the coalition dropped below 5% nationally for the first time. The coalition supported the minority Socialist Costa Government from 2015 until 2019 with a confidence and supply agreement. History Since the beginning of the coalition, the member parties have never participate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CDS – People's Party
The CDS – People's Party (, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP) Tribunal Constitucional. is a and political party in Portugal. It is characterized as being between the |
Enough (Portuguese Political Party)
Chega (; officially stylised as CHEGA!, , often truncated to CH in visual media) is a national conservative and right-wing populist political party in Portugal, formed in 2019 by André Ventura. It is on the far-right of the political spectrum. Chega won one seat in the Assembly of the Republic in the 2019 election. Since this election, the party has rapidly grown in popularity, gaining significant support for its anti-establishment positions. It was the third most voted party in the elections of 2022 taking 12 seats. It saw a surge in support in the 2024 winning 50 seats, more than quadrupling its previous seat count. It improved its position further in the 2025 election, winning 60 seats and overtaking the Socialist Party's tally to achieve second place. History Foundation and Basta! coalition André Ventura was the Social Democratic Party (PSD) candidate for mayor of Loures in the Lisbon District in the 2017 local elections. During his campaign, he made comments abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
