“I find the presence of the PSD at the Chega Convention regrettable. It is an unacceptable normalization of a racist, xenophobic, extremist party,” wrote Jorge Moreira da Silva, candidate defeated by the current Social Democratic president, Luís Montenegro, in the last leadership of the party on May 28, 2022.
Moreira da Silva repeated his statements in the PSD boards of May last year: With Chega “never, never, at any time. It violates our values and principles. And there is no compromise”.
Jorge Moreira da Silva was Minister of the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy in the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho and Vice-President of the PSD. He was also a deputy and adviser to the former President of the Republic Cavaco Silva.
The PSD was represented at the closing of the V National Convention of Chega, which took place in Santarém between Friday and today, by its vice-president Miguel Pinto Luz, who said it was not “the place nor the time” to discuss a possible agreement with Chega, whom he called a “shouting, protesting” party against a PSD that was “willing” to become a government.
Pinto Luz justified his presence at the conclusion of the V Chega convention by stating that the PSD does the same with all parties with parliamentary representation, which is “sound from a democratic coexistence point of view”.
“The PSD is very clear that Chega is playing the game of democracy, a bit like the Bloco de Esquerda,” he said, calling the party “the Bloco de Esquerda of the right, someone who feeds on collective frustration in order to be heard.” become”.
Source: DN
