Chega is going to Congress, “predictably in January,” with the aim of reviewing statutes found flawed by the Constitutional Court, which were themselves approved at a major party meeting last November.
The intention was announced this Wednesday during a press conference by the chairman of the party, André Ventura. “I ordered yesterday [terça-feira] to the National Directorate to convene a new national congress of Chega so that the necessary adjustments and changes can be made and so that the party, in its magna representative assembly, of all militants from all districts and autonomous regions, can express once again what he wants for the future, the statutes in which he wants to live and organize himself,” he said. According to André Ventura, this meeting will also serve to evaluate the “legal situation in which the bodies function”.
Although there is no exact date yet, the party is expected to meet in Januarybut the concrete date and place will be announced at a National Council scheduled for December 10, which will also determine the rules for the composition of the Congress, such as the voting method and the extension of the statutory amendments.
All these decisions come days after the Constitutional Court (TC) once again failed to comply with party statutes for the third time. In fact, the statutes that have now been rejected are themselves the result of a congress where statutory amendments were made. After the party amended the statutes at the 2020 Congress of Évora, the TC overturned the decision because, she defended, the statute change was not on the assembly’s list of works. Now the court again rejected the statutes, but this time because of the “considerable concentration of powers” in the figure of the leader.
Faced with the decision, André Ventura says the now convened Congress “will be the fifth in four years” and that Chega “holds more direct elections per year on average than any other party”. Therefore, “a lack of democracy is something that the court cannot accuse,” he defended.
André Ventura confessed his “surprise” with the decision, explaining that Chega was “informed” by the TC a few months ago with the aim of clarifying “some issues of the statutes in some cases” which, he says , “are not the same as those set out in the judgment”. All these changes, Ventura believes, “disturb the life of the party”, namely “internal management and legal organization”.🇧🇷 In addition, he also defended, lead influences the performance of the party, since bodies such as “the youth or the general secretariat” were not registered.
Source: DN
