The PS-JPP joint press conference was a bit weird. First, reporters weren't allowed to ask questions to the party leaders, second, other parties weren't informed or contacted about the details of this "compromise", and third, it's odd that in an announcement of a government compromise one of the sides, in this case JPP, says that "if this doesn't work, we're going home". Paulo Cafôfo, PS leader, says that alternation is needed in Madeira and that this compromise with JPP can ensure a "stable but responsible" government. JPP says that they could not sit by and let this opportunity pass and present an alternative to the near 50 years of PSD rule, and both challenge other parties, CDS, IL and PAN, to join PS and JPP.
The Representative of the Republic in Madeira, Ireneu Barreto, will met with parties this Tuesday, 28 May, during the day.
In the PSD-Madeira, some are now criticizing Miguel Albuquerque. The main figure is Alberto Joăo Jardim, former PSD-M leader and Madeira President (1978-2015),
which says that Albuquerque must resign as he's the sole responsable for all the instability in Madeira, pointing that parties are willing to make deals with the PSD, but that Albuquerque is an obstacle right now.
PM Montenegro has already criticized this "compromise" and joked that election losers are more concentrated in "contraptioning", both in Madeira and in the mainland, than in being opposition. Pedro Nuno Santos says he stands by all decisions made by the PS-Madeira.
