The flag of the now defunct Madeira Archipelago Liberation Front (FLAMA) is composed of a blue-yellow-blue vertical triband, and in the yellow sections there are five small shields.

According to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira's reasoning, published in the Regional Decree n. º 30/78/M of 12 September,[2] which adopted the current flag, the similarity of designed was justified on the following grounds the Madeirans had "a vigorous reaction, demarcated in relation to everything that was objectively wicked [PREC]."

Such reaction generated among the population a "mythical vagueness typical of such historical-community phenomena" which lead Madeirans to adopt the use of blue and gold colours as identifiers for the Region.

Therefore, any other insignias with other colours would mean nothing to the Madeirans and the separatists would develop around the blue and gold an aura of heroic clandestinity, easy and superficial attractive to the collective subconscious, to the point that they could successfully impose anti-patriotic symbology."

By adopting the blue and gold, the Region's elected representatives met the essential collective motivation and destroyed the separatist mystification, removing any identifying mark and consecrated the colours as a symbol of autonomy within of the Portuguese Republic.