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The leader of the PSD / Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, passed to the regional Parliament the support for the formation of an Azorean Government – which admits with great caution that it may be a right-wing ‘contraption’ against the PS that lost the absolute majority, the Quien I call “alternative responsibility”. But for now it was very prudent to analyze 39% of the PS and 33% of the PSD. Minutes before, in reaction to the result, Rui Rio passed the decision to the party bodies of the autonomous region, but hinted that the Social Democrats could form an Executive with right-wing parties and the PAN: “In view of these results, governing the Azores is not easy. The left does not get a majority. The whole right does, but the whole right is very divided, it has many parties and it will not be easy.” And he referred a decision to the regional political commission of the party headed by Bolieiro.
However, he did not stop advancing a clue: “It is not easy, although all the parts are united. I have my idea, but I do not want to say.” Only he said: “If I were in your place [de Bolieiro] I was waiting for the Regional Political Commission. It’s not easy to bring all these parties together-André Ventura has already rejected understandings in statements to Expresso- and then added the PAN to the list because “it is not so much to the right and not so much to the left.”
Shortly after, in his speech, Jose Manuel Bolieiro recognized the victory of the PS, but left the government in the hands of the Regional Legislative Assembly: “It is in Parliament where the political decision is now focused. There is no unilateral determination by either party. There is no declaration that compromises the future without dialogue and respect for the new framework ”. A follow-up of what happened on the continent in 2015.
With these results Bolieiro spoke of a new “legitimacy for PSD”, which assumes with the “democratic firmness and institutional humility that learn about this new parliamentary framework to guarantee government stability and a democratic future. “Our framework is” dialogue and consultation, “he said. But who governs?
Regarding coalitions with extremist parties, he stated that these “Populist and extremist attitudes do not touch or interest Azoreans”. And he affirmed “total availability for dialogue”, which is “versatile, which can admit both opposition and an “alternative responsibility” – that is, a government headed by the PSD taking into account the parliamentary arrangements. “Dialogue in Parliament does not exclude anyone.” Even enough.
Rui Rio called the result “frankly positive”. The PSD leader views the night of the elections very positively, not only because of the loss of the absolute majority in the PS, but also because of the growth of the PSD. The PS lost 7.5% of the votes, lost 5 regional deputies while the PSD increased by 3%, increased 3 deputies and further asserted itself as the alternative political force ”.
CDS celebrates result
Despite having lost a seat, faced with the news that gave it an even worse result, the CDS effusively celebrated the election of its three deputies. “The news of the death of the CDS was once again wildly exaggerated”declared the party’s president, Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos. With a message that crossed the borders of the archipelago to reach the continent: “The party is resisting.”
Convinced that the party was “decisive to take away the absolute majority from the PS” and happy to have “more votes than the PCP and the BE together”, Rodrigues dos Santos showed a preference for joining the PSD in the formation of the Government: “It will not divide or fracture our political spectrum”. But with André Ventura’s ‘denial’, the right should have no chance of trying to form a ‘contraption’.
