Following the election results, CDU regional coordinator and presidential candidate for the city council of Funchal, Edgar Silva, said that “these municipal elections mean that the region as a whole, and from the CDU’s point of view, is a failure in terms of regional policy frameworks.”
DIÁRIO demonstrates that, given that in the coming years there will be very large amounts of funds to be managed by municipalities, “our understanding of these election results is of great concern, because, in the first place, inspection tools, means of providing critical opposition, agreed, above all requiring, these means of verification and implementation of the opposition will be reduced. “Edgar Silva emphasizes that the CDU strongly insisted” on the danger that the city council of Funchal will be left with only PS and PSD, alone, without control and without hands, which could mean something harmful to democracy itself, because in many aspects of city life, regardless of who won. PS or PSD, in fact, those issues that we consider important, they understand each other, and then it was important to have someone who changed the situation. “
“This political structure in Funchal, which later finds its expression in other municipalities, from our point of view, means a political failure, and the population will feel that they will somehow lose their complaints mechanisms, they may resent this, because democracy itself is cut off from more sensitive elements to be examined, ”he warns.
In any case, Edgar Silva stresses that the fact that the CDU remains the third political force in Funchal is important, “the fact that we can maintain a political representation that allows us to intervene in the structure of the municipal assembly.” … The data that the party has just had is that Herlanda Amado will remain a municipal deputy. “This is important because there won’t be as many exercise opportunities as we might have if we were refreshed, but it is important to maintain this cutting edge in intervention.”
