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Miguel Filipe Machado de Albuquerque (born 4 May 1961) is a Portuguese monarchist [2] politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the current President of the Regional Government of Madeira. He took office as leader of the PSD of Madeira on 10 January 2015. [3] He was a former mayor (presidente da Câmara in Portuguese) of Funchal, Madeira.
In the PSD, Miguel Albuquerque's challenger in 2015 and 2024, Manuel António Correia, also pressed for a snap leadership ballot, saying that Albuquerque is the source of all the current instability in Madeira, and delivered enough signatures to ask for the calling of a ballot. [41]
Carlos Manuel de Azeredo and Joaquim Miguel Duarte Silva served as presidents of the Regional Junta, the provisional government that functioned during the transition towards democracy. The current President of the Regional Government of Madeira is Miguel Albuquerque , whose party won the 2015 Madeira regional election on 29 March 2015.
The mayor of Funchal, Pedro Calado, and two businessmen were arrested by the police, while Miguel Albuquerque was named as a formal suspect. [46] At first, Albuquerque refused to resign, but due to PAN's threat of withdrawing their support from the PSD/CDS-PP minority government, Miguel Abuquerque retracted his earlier position and resigned ...
In 2015, former mayor of Funchal Miguel Albuquerque succeeded him. In 2019, for the first time since 1976, the PSD lost its parliamentary majority and was forced into a governmental coalition with the right-wing Popular Party. [4]
A regional election was held in Madeira on 29 March 2015, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira.The election was the first in which the former President of the Region, Alberto João Jardim, was not on the ballot as he earlier stated that he would step down as President and leader of the PSD-Madeira in January 2015. [1]
The Government of the Autonomous Region of Madeira is the local government of this Portuguese autonomous region. [2] [3] [4]The Regional Government is one of the two organs of self-government of the Autonomous Region along with the Regional Legislative Assembly, to which it is politically accountable.
In 2006, Miguel Albuquerque published a book where he writes about a few of the most important roses from the garden. [5] The rosarium contains a few rare rose species, for example, the indigenous rose Rosa mandonii. Albuquerque is also busy with rose breeding; the rose 'Lagoa' is, for example, a rose created by him in 2015. [6]