Enough/Madeira accuses Miguel Castro of following “personal agenda”

“ A out of Miguel Castro, obviously, says more of Miguel Castro himself than of the party ", said, seeing that the former director did what he criticized regarding other elements, when he claimed that the party had to be always above personal interests.

“Miguel Castro was in a register of his own interests, worried about himself and not the party,” Hugo Nunes reinforced in statements to journalists in Funchal.

The new leader of the Achequi/Madeira, elected in the June internal elections, maintains that Miguel Castro followed a “personal agenda” and, on the other hand, classified as “false” his statements regarding the contact with the party president, André Ventura, who was in Madeira last weekend.

In statements to Lusa, Miguel Castro explained that, before making the decision to disengage from the party and become an independent MP, he waited for a meeting with President André Ventura, which did not happen.

“Miguel Castro was invited by me to be present in the rentrée of the party,” said Hugo Nunes, adding: “He was the one who did not want to be present. If he wanted to talk to President André Ventura he knew where he would be and knew what we were going to do and could be there and talk to the president.”

Hugo Nunes stressed, on the other hand, that the former leader and deputy was always informed of the meetings of the parliamentary group since the new leadership took office, but “just never appeared”.

“Miguel Castro had been disconnected from the Aquira for a long time and only served as excuses that are not true to become independent,” he said.

The president of the Arriba/Madeira, also leader of the parliamentary group of the party in the Legislative Assembly, considered that the departure of the former leader did not weaken the party or the parliamentary group, now composed of two deputies.

“The party is stronger. Miguel Castro’s departure does not weaken the party at all,” he said, reinforcing: “In my personal opinion, I think it will even help to be a Arrive stronger than the one it is right now.”

Miguel Castro, who led the regional structure of the city between 2022 and June 2026, claimed that the new leadership removed his political confidence and therefore decided to disengage from the party and become an independent deputy in the Madeiran parliament.

“ I am neither old plate nor jar to stay on a shelf”, I told Lusa agency today.

The Cávez had three deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, a total of 47 members of the Chamber, elected in the early regional elections of 2025, and the party has had parliamentary representation in the region since 2023, year in which it elected four representatives.