300 days after the investigation that shook Madeira, as part of the mega-operation of the Judiciary Police that involved several searches and in which the President of the Regional Government is the main defendant, Expresso reveals that Miguel Albuquerque has not yet been heard by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the national weekly, through the online edition, the President of the Regional Government of Madeira has already asked twice to be heard. However, allegedly without success.
It should be recalled that Miguel Albuquerque was one of the names targeted in the judicial operation that took place earlier this year.
Following this investigation and the elements that point to Miguel Albuquerque as one of those targeted, Madeira experienced a political crisis that led to early elections in May, a few months after the legislative elections in September last year.
Now, after the ‘Ab Initio’ operation, the political crisis has once again hovered over regional governance, reaching the point that the opposition, through the parliamentary group of Chega, has presented a motion of censure.
The text was going to be voted on next Monday, but it was approved yesterday, at a conference of party representatives, that the motion of censure has been amended to the 17th of December 17, a week after the debate on the Region’s Budget for 2025.
Despite this postponement, the President of the Government remains under strong opposition from opposition parties and even among the PSD-Madeira itself.
Miguel Albuquerque has always said he was innocent and with a clear conscience, but even today the content of the suspicions of justice in relation to the head of the Regional Government is not known, unlike what happened with other elements targeted in these investigations, whose process was released shortly after.
In his defence, the President of Madeira has requested to be heard twice but the opportunity has not been granted to him by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
