Autor(es): Freire, André ; Ruel, Teresa
Data: 2023
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/30673
Origem: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Assunto(s): Regional Elections; Azores; Madeira; Party System Dynamics; Political Alternation; National and Regional Politics.
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.
