The Elections for the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores held today are marked by the loss of the absolute majority by the PS.
The loss of the absolute majority is in itself a sign that, without this being absolute, reflects the growing discontent in the face of a governance that has increased problems, worsened social problems, unemployment and poverty, conditioned the region's development.
It should also be noted that these elections are marked by the emergence of forces without any history or real contribution to regional political and social life, that without a proposal or project for the Region found ground in demagoguery and in exploring an environment of widespread disbelief due to the lack of response to their problems a way to gather votes that will prove to be inconsequential.
CDU’s result - 1.68% and 1745 votes - does not reflect either the social and political influence of the CDU or the recognition of its intervention in Azorean political life. The significant increase in the CDU vote in Faial did not compensate a fall in votes in other electoral circles. The loss of parliamentary representation by the CDU is a particularly negative result in regional political life, a significant democratic impoverishment and, above all, a weakening of intervention in defence of the interests of the workers and Azorean people, as has already been proved between 2004 and 2008, a period during which the CDU had no parliamentary representation.
What may have weighed in the CDU not electing deputies was the dispersion of candidacies, the expression of the continued anti-communist offensive that had its effects in the region, the added difficulties that the epidemic caused in the construction of the CDU campaign that has in participation and in the direct contact central aspects in clarifying and mobilizing the vote.
Saluting all the Azorean men and women who entrusted their vote and support to the CDU, the Azorean workers and people will continue to count, even without parliamentary representation, on the intervention of the PCP and CDU in the defence of their rights and interests, in the affirmation of the interests of the region and autonomy, in the struggle for better wages and pensions, for the right to work and social functions, the affirmation and valorisation of regional production.
The PCP also salutes all Party militants, members of the Ecologist Party “The Greens”-PEV, all candidates and the many independent and activists of the CDU who carried out an important and unparalleled campaign of clarifying and direct contact with the populations, facing a patent disproportion of means displayed by others, whose direct value in this battle will endure for the many struggles to be fought in defence of the Azorean people and their right to a better life.
