"The pressure on families and young people who want to rent or buy a house in the region is unacceptable," the Livre candidate told journalists, in a campaign initiative that took place in a social housing neighborhood in Funchal. The party was with a family (who did not want to be identified), who reported that they are about to be evicted from their home, in that neighborhood, for having contracted a debt and being unable to pay the housing loan. The couple, with three children, say they have nowhere to live, since the values ​​practiced in the rental market are unbearable, awaiting a possible allocation of public housing by the Regional Government. "We cannot ignore that at this very moment people are being evicted, many pushed by gentrification, real estate speculation and bank loans," warned Marta Sofia. The candidate stressed that "an emergency housing plan is urgently needed, but a response from Social Security is also urgent, which is not based on rental support that does not correspond to the values ​​of the real estate market." Livre proposes that 20% of the housing built be for public social housing or at controlled costs, financing self-construction and architecture projects, an increase in support for renting and purchasing housing, as well as the conversion of unused public buildings into university residences for young people, he highlighted. "At this moment, we are facing a setback in real estate speculation, it is an unbridled business of an island that is not being made for the Madeirans and Porto-Santenses to live," he lamented, reinforcing that "48 years of government by a single party in the region did not solve the problem of housing." Livre ran for the first time in the regional elections of Madeira in September 2023, but did not win any mandates. The Madeira legislative elections will take place on May 26, with 14 candidates running for the 47 seats in the regional parliament, in a single electoral district: ADN, BE, PS, Livre, IL, RIR, CDU (PCP/PEV), Chega, CDS-PP, MPT, PSD, PAN, PTP and JPP. The early elections take place eight months after the most recent regional legislative elections, after the President of the Republic dissolved the Madeiran parliament, following the political crisis triggered in January, when the leader of the Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque, was made a defendant in a process in which suspicions of corruption are being investigated. In September 2023, the PSD/CDS coalition won without an absolute majority and elected 23 deputies. The PS won 11, the JPP five, the Chega four, while the CDU, the IL, the PAN (which signed a parliamentary incidence agreement with the Social Democrats) and the BE each obtained a mandate. Read Also: PCP accuses the Government of benefiting a "small minority" (Portuguese version)