In a reaction to the official provisional results released by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI), Edgar Silva acknowledged that the exit of the Democratic Unitarian Coalition (CDU) from the regional parliament is "a very unfavorable factor".

However, "it is not new that the CDU loses parliamentary representation", he recalled, promising to continue with "the fight".

According to the official provisional results of the MAI General Secretariat, the CDU obtained 1.63% of the votes (2,217) and was the eighth most voted political force among the 14 that ran.

Edgar Silva -- the only one elected by the CDU in the last elections, in September 2023 -- refused to consider the electoral result "ungrateful", choosing to regret that the Madeiran Legislative Assembly loses the voice of the CDU for what it brings of "commitment to social justice".

Now, he warned, "the people will have fewer means to defend their fair claims" and, outside parliament, the CDU will have "fewer means of political intervention".

Questioned by journalists about the impact of the left being represented in the regional parliament only by the PS, he replied ironically - "do you think?" - and then assured: "We will work".

Alongside the CDU, the BE also failed to elect deputies in the early regional elections of Madeira.

This is the third time that both the CDU and the BE have failed to be present in the parliament of Madeira.

With the departure of these two forces, the Legislative Assembly of Madeira is left with representatives from seven political parties: PSD, PS, JPP, Chega, CDS-PP, IL and PAN.

This Sunday's elections were won by the PSD, which obtained 36.13% of the votes (49,103) and elected 19 deputies, having failed to reach the target of 24 to achieve an absolute majority.

The PS followed with 11 deputies, the JPP which rose to nine deputies, Chega obtained four, the CDS-PP two and the IL and the PAN elected one representative each.

Fourteen candidacies contested the 47 seats in the regional parliament, in a single constituency: ADN, BE, PS, Livre, IL, RIR, CDU (PCP/PEV), Chega, CDS-PP, MPT, PSD, PAN, PTP and JPP.

The early elections in Madeira took place eight months after the most recent regional 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 constituted an arguido in a process in which suspicions of corruption are being investigated.

Leia Também: JPP increases from five to nine deputies and PSD loses votes without coalition (Portuguese version)