The violation of election laws in Madeira has been denounced many times over the past four decades, by all parties. The following is an example of what was published in the CDS Party newspaper in 1984.
“Madeira is a unique case in Portuguese democracy. The PSD majority in power shows no shame, not only in its excesses, but also in publicly assuming this scandal.
A case in point is the President of the Regional Government using inauguration ceremonies for electoral purposes, in the midst of the election campaign, not knowing how to distinguish, in his mad rush to power, his function as head the Madeiran Executive from his other condition as PSD election candidate, under the same circumstances and enjoying exactly the same rights as all the candidates from all other parties.
In these official events, religiously reported by the press on a daily basis, and revealed in all their extent by the TV cameras, Alberto João Jardim carried on his lapel the emblem of his own party, which shone with an intensity equal to those of his eyes, devoured by Hitlerian appetites for total dictatorship.
This gesture, unusual in democracy, reveals a total disrespect for the rules of democracy and for his political adversaries – who do not enjoy the same means to carry out propaganda, resulting in an inequality in the election process. This proves what the CDS has always maintained: there is an absence of civility, ethics and responsibility, in the politics of those in power in Madeira…”
In three decades, nothing has changed, no state entity has intervened in the name of the law and Jardim continues exactly as the CDS described him …
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