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The results are still provisional, but the first projection of the RTP of the Catholic University on the elections in the Azores leaves a potentially heated scene in the regional Parliament. According to these first figures, the PS may lack the absolute majority that it currently has. A doubt that PSD and CDS have already highlighted, waiting for more concrete results in what will be a “long night”.
A few minutes had passed since the unveiling of the first screening, at 8:00 p.m. in mainland Portugal, when the first reaction of the night appeared. It was through the voice of Luís Pereira, general secretary of the PSD / Açores, who congratulated himself for the “improvement of the PSD result” (which could go from 19 to 22 deputies at most) and for the “penalty” of the PS: “The data show a breakdown of the party that has governed for the last 24 years and a desire for change,” he guaranteed.
A short time later, it was the regional CDS that reacted by casting doubts on what will come next: on a night of “a lot of vagueness” when it is true that “a great rise is not expected” (rather a fall, from 4 to 1 to 3 mandates) of the centrists, was a relevant warning. “We will see what the role of the CDS is, in a context that seems to be that we will not have an absolute majority government.” The night will be “long”, but conclusions about the future governance of the islands can only be drawn with definitive results.
For the PS, winner of the elections, it was Francisco César (campaign director of Vasco Cordeiro, current president of the region) who reacted, focusing on the apparent reduction in abstention and assuring that it was a “great victory” for the . How big, since the socialists openly aimed for the absolute majority, which is not guaranteed? We will have to wait for the results “parish by parish”, with “confidence and serenity”. Only with this wait will the final scenario be confirmed.
Through the voice of the leader Aníbal Pires, the CDU assured that it maintained “the confidence and the expectation” in the election of a deputy in the Azores – the same representation it has today – and that, if that happens, “it will not be the CDU the one that wins “. but the Azoreans win. ”
