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The president of the PS, Carlos César, considered today that Vasco Cordeiro has the “right and duty” to “form a government” in the Azores as a result of Sunday’s elections, although there is a right-wing bloc with more elected deputies.
Vasco Cordeiro has, as I said, a complex mission before him to form a government and, even more, the right and duty, determined by the results of the vote, to do so. He did so, on the very night of the elections, in search of a solution of stability and security for the Azores. But this is also the responsibility of other parties that really want to put the Azores and the Azoreans first, “wrote César, also a former president of the Azores Government.
The socialist published this afternoon a text on Facebook with various considerations on the Azorean political situation resulting from Sunday’s suffrage, accompanying the words with an image in which he was accompanied by Mota Amaral, Social Democratic historian and first president of the regional executive, and Vasco. Cordeiro, head of the government of the Azores since 2012. Noting that the CDS “has historically been a privileged interlocutor of the PS in the region, in a continuous and verified dialogue”, Carlos César recalls that even a possible support from the centrists “is not enough “for a stable executive.
“Whatever the government, it must avoid precarious solutions. The PS / Açores, better than I, due to its recent experience, will know how to dialogue and decide, especially since it is a party with a unique ability to speak of left and right and, also therefore, the potential for greater stability ”, he defends.
The Azorean PSD, César adds, “can only form a government with five parties and is associated in some way with Chega,” who elected two deputies.
“Can it go so far? … And even if it does, for how long? Constitute a government, in this context, in the Azores, must be an act of great responsibility and future, for the PS, as for all the others parties. Staying in the government or in the opposition, only those who have tried to put the Azores first should sleep peacefully, “he insists.
Azorean socialist history also maintains that the PS won in seven of the nine islands, in 12 of the 19 municipalities and in 101 of the 156 parishes, having “more deputies, more votes and a higher percentage than the PSD, despite the wear and tear that he behaved for 24 years. ” in the government and the current differentiated party offer “in the Azores.
“One thing is certain: the PS continues to be the favorite party of the Azoreans, but it lost the electoral and parliamentary hegemony that it had, although the PSD registered its seventh consecutive defeat in the regional elections, without even reaching the result in Berta’s votes. Cabral “, in 2012, also wrinkles.
The Political-Administrative Statute of the Autonomous Region of the Azores establishes that the president of the Regional Government is appointed by the representative of the Republic “taking into account the results of the elections,” a formulation that, this year, is especially complex.
The PS won the regional elections on Sunday, electing 25 of the deputies to the Regional Legislative Assembly, but a right-wing bloc, in an eventual alliance (in the executive or with parliamentary agreements) between PSD, CDS, Chega, PPM and Iniciativa Liberal could function as an alternative of governance in the region, since a union of all elected parliamentarians gives 29 elected members (what is necessary for an absolute majority).
The law indicates that the representative of the Republic, Pedro Catarino, will appoint the new president of the Regional Government “after listening to the political parties” represented in the new Azorean parliament.
According to an indication given to the Lusa agency by a source in the office of the representative of the Republic, Pedro Catarino will only be able to hear the representatives of the political parties elected this Sunday once the official results are published in the Diário da República, which which may still take a few days.
The general assembly for counting the results only begins its work “at 9:00 am on the second day after the election” (Tuesday), having to complete the official results “until the tenth day after the election.”
These data will later be sent to the National Electoral Commission (CNE), which will have eight days to send “an official map with the results of the elections” for publication in the Diário da República.
During these days, it is expected that the parties will begin negotiations for possible government formations – joining various forces or supported in parliament – that can be presented to Pedro Catarino.
After the next Government of the Azores takes office, there will be a maximum period of 10 days for the executive’s program to be delivered to the Legislative Assembly.
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