🇵🇹 Portugal's politics and elections 4.0 (Madeira snap regional election: 26 May 2024)

[Battista Minola 1616]

some of these are extremely concerning.

Some of the numbers are actually an improvement compared with a similar poll made 10 years ago, in 2014, and even another one made 20 years ago. For example, in 2014, just 41% rated the changes in society after 1974 as more positive than negative, and it's now at 56%; In 2014, just 25% were satisfied with democracy, and it's now at 57%.

More info here.

I assume this is influenced by Portugal being in an obviously worse state in 2014, when the sovereign debt crisis was the present and not the past. I am not sure if this fact is relieving or even more concerning, but I like to be an optimist.

[Battista Minola 1616]

As a fellow Southern European, all I can say is that Ventura claiming Turks are not known for being the most hard-working people in the world is a bit of a pot calling the kettle black moment.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Oh right today they vote (again) in Madeira. I am vaguely surprised turnout is keeping up with last time and people aren't getting tired. Did anyone try and make the election coincide with the European one?

[Battista Minola 1616]

I notice that the LIVRE ad is the only one without subtitles, which seems pretty out of character. I also notice that the AD ad is the only one that addresses the viewer in the third person, which is less surprising (if I had to bet in advance on which party would have the most formal communication, it would be them) but still funny. My other takeaway from the ads is that IL once again hampers its message with ridiculous details, like that Das Kapital skit.