Abstention in Madeira between 44% and 49%, according to "Católica" estimate
Abstention in today's regional legislative elections in Madeira should be between 44% and 49%, according to an estimate by the Center for Studies and Opinion Polls of the Portuguese Catholic University, released by RTP at 6:30 pm.
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The estimate was calculated based on the results of the voter turnout at 4 pm indicated by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration (SGMAI).
According to data previously released by SGMAI, the voter turnout was 40.52% until 4 pm, slightly higher than that recorded in 2023, in the previous regional legislative elections (39.9%).
The abstention ended up being 46.65% last year and 44.5% in 2019.
In 2015, with an abstention rate of 50.42%, the record was broken since 1976, when the first elections for the Legislative Assembly of Madeira were held.
In today's early regional elections, more than 254 thousand voters are called to vote to choose a new parliament and a new government.
Fourteen candidacies are competing for the 47 seats in the regional parliament, in a single electoral constituency: ADN, BE, PS, Livre, IL, RIR, CDU (PCP/PEV), Chega, CDS-PP, MPT, PSD, PAN, PTP and JPP.
Today's early elections take place eight months after the most recent regional legislative elections, after the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, dissolved the Madeiran parliament, following the political crisis triggered in January, when the leader of the Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque, was named a defendant in a process in which suspicions of corruption are being investigated.
The polls close at 7 pm.
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