Chega’s president this Tuesday set a target for the party to win 15% of the vote in next year’s European elections and achieve “its best result ever”, indicating that the head of the list will be elected in September .
This will be the first European Parliament election in which Chega will run with its own lists, but André Ventura headed the list of the Basta! in 2019, which brought together Chega, the Popular Monarchist Party (PPM), the Citizenship and Christian Democracy Party (PPV/CDC) and the Democracy 21 movement.
Speaking at a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Lisbon, Chega’s leader criticized the statements made by PSD president Luís Montenegro, who said in an interview with RTP on Monday evening that it would be a bad thing to give Europeans two or three percentage points to lose. result.
“If we start saying that a small result is enough, we will fail the voters and the President of the Republic, who asked for a clear majority,” said André Ventura.
“We can’t say we can lose, we have to say we have to win a lot,” he defended, stating that the right must “show its ability to boost, aggregate” and “clearly win” , which sends a “very clear signal that the country no longer has the PS”.
Regarding the regional elections in Madeira, which will be held this year, the president of Chega pointed out that the goal is “to dethrone the absolute majority of the PSD” in that archipelago.
“If we fail, it will be a failure for the party,” he said.
“Chega is a government solution, or it is not a solution at all”
On Monday, the far-right party announced in a statement that Miguel Castro (leader of Chega/Madeira) will be the leader for elections in that autonomous region.
Regarding the post-election period, André Ventura said he wanted it recorded that, as long as he leads Chega, the party will “never again” be included in parliamentary support solutions.
“Neither in the Azores, nor in Madeira, nor in the national parliament. Chega is either a government solution or it is not a solution at all,” he assured.
Ventura said these two electoral challenges could send a “clear signal of an alternative, of a majority” to the right, and expressed hope that in this way the president of the republic would dissolve the republic’s assembly and call early parliamentary elections, but only after completion of the TAP survey.
Chega’s leader recalled that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has said “that he is not dissolving parliament or making decisions because he doesn’t feel there is an alternative” and that by winning the regional and European elections, the right has “a signal to the president of the republic of which there is a political majority” to run the country.
Ventura took the opportunity to leave another criticism of the PSD for deciding to ask the prime minister a series of questions about the performance of the information services in recovering the computer of the former deputy of the infrastructure minister, referring to the fact that Chega questioned António Costa last week and went on to propose the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, like the IL.
Chega’s leader stressed “the difference” between the two parties and accused the social democrats of “choosing a form of opposition that is neither acceptable nor understandable”.
“What is the PSD waiting for to realize that we have to get our hands dirty and force the government to respond?” he prepares the articulation of answers”, but it is necessary “to know what happened”, namely who was the indication to contact SIS.
Source: DN
