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ABSTRACT
Major changes took place during the most recent regional elections in Madeira (2019) and the Azores (2020). In Madeira, the PSD took office, but only in a coalition with the CDS-PP. After 43 years of regional elections, a pattern of non-alternation was suddenly changed to one of partial alternation. In the Azores, despite being the largest single party after the election, 24-years of PS rule came to an end with the victory of a broad PSD-led coalition that included CDS-PP and the PPM and which received parliamentary support from IL and Chega. The latter two, together with PAN, were new parties that won votes in the election.
In this report, we discuss two-way spill overs between national and regional politics in both regions: that is, the influence from national to regional politics and vice-versa.
Acknowledgements
We warmly thank the English language (and formal) editing of the article by Stewart Lloyd-Jones; the proofreading of this paper was provided by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the funding of the R&D Unit UIDB/03126/2020.
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Notes
1 The CDU is an electoral and political coalition involving the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP – Partido Comunista Português) and the Ecologist Party ‘The Greens’ (PEV – Partido Ecologista ‘Os Verdes’).
2 See National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estatistica), https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpgid=ine_main&xpid=INE Accessed in 14-03-2023, 9h am.
3 RSI is a means-tested social welfare benefit that provides financial support to individuals and families with low or no income. Its aim is to promote social inclusion and combat poverty.
4 See ine.pt
5 The official results of the 2019 and 2022 general elections are available on the National Elections Commission (Comissão Nacional de Eleições) website at cne.pt/content/eleicoes-referendos-resultados-oficiais Accessed in 14-3-2023, 9h PM.