Today, the Legislative Assembly of Madeira unanimously approved three votes of praise to the Civil Protection Service, firefighters, government agencies and local authorities for their action in front of storm Charles, which devastated the region on Tuesday and Wednesday.
© Municipality of Porto Moniz/Facebook
12/11/2026
by
Lusa
A Madeira's Legislative Assembly today unanimously approved three votes of praise to the Civil Protection Service, firefighters, government entities and local authorities for their action in front of storm Charles, which devastated the region on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The votes were presented by the PSD and the People's Joint Committee (JPP) and by the non-attached Member (ex-Enough).
Between 20:00 Tuesday and 06:00 the following day the archipelago of Madeira this under red weather warning, the most serious, issued by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) by the forecast of heavy rain and wind.
According to the last balance of the Regional Civil Protection, Madeira registered, between 20:00 Tuesday and 18:40 Wednesday, a total of 328 occurrences, which mobilized 813 operational and 341 vehicles.
The most significant occurrences were mass landslides (88), tree falls (50) and road cleaning (34).
The municipality of Funchal is the most affected, with 95 records, followed by the contiguous municipality to the east, Santa Cruz, with 78, Machico, in the east end of the island, with 43, and Câmara de Lobos, neighboring to the west of the main city of the region, with 42.
The most serious situations recorded involved affected housing in the municipality of Ribeira Brava and the rescue of a 78-year-old man dragged by the water of a river that he covered in the parish of São Roque, Funchal.
The classified pedestrian routes remain closed today for security reasons, the Regional Government indicated.
The Madeiran parliament also unanimously approved five votes to praise the football player born on the island of Cristiano Ronaldo, recognizing his path to the Portuguese national team – from which he recently withdrew – and his contribution to the dissemination of this region.
Unanimously, greeting and solidarity flights were also approved for awareness campaigns October Rosa (breast cancer) and November Blue (prostate cancer).
Rejected – with the votes against the PSD, the CDS-PP, the Aquida and the non-attached Member, and in favour of the other Members (PS, JPP and IL) – was the proposal of the PS discussed on Tuesday in plenary that aimed to create regional support for the tuition of Madeiran students in higher education, aimed at the progressive elimination of this burden, considering that regional autonomy should serve to adopt specific measures to help young people.