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The resigning leader of Chega is the only candidate for the presidency of the national leadership in the direct elections on Saturday, confirmed this Friday to the Lusa news agency.
In addition to the election of the leader, the approximately 10,000 militants with the right to vote out of a total of about 20,000 will also pronounce on the reintroduction of the death penalty for very serious crimes.
André Ventura He resigned from the party leadership in early April, after being criticized internally for abstaining from voting for the renewal of the state of emergency promulgated due to the covid-19 pandemic.
At that time, the only Chega deputy said he was “fed up” and “tired” of those who “systematically boycott” the party leadership.
Between 10 a. M. And 6 p.m. On Saturday, in 26 places across the country (some districts have more than one electoral college), supporters of the right-wing populist party pronounce on the president of the national leadership, the lists of district and regional delegates to the II Convention Nacional (September 19 and 20, in Évora) and in the referendum on the death penalty.
I, because of my formation and Christian faith, am against”Said Ventura, who defends life imprisonment.
153 years ago, Portugal was the first modern sovereign state in Europe to abolish the death penalty (1867), with only the earlier example being the transalpine Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1786).
Do you agree with the application of the death penalty in cases of terrorism, homicide, sexual abuse of minors or rape, when they occur in a context of particular perversity or censorship, to be defined in a special law? ”.is the question that Chega’s militants will answer.
After 1867, Portugal abolished the death penalty for all crimes, including military crimes, with the first Constitution of the Portuguese Republic in 1911, renewed by the new Constitution of the Portuguese Republic in 1976, after 48 years of fascist dictatorship of the Estado Novo. .
André Ventura was elected president of Chega at the I National Convention of the party, on June 30, 2019, in the auditorium of the Portuguese Institute of Meteorology and Atmosphere, in Algés, Lisbon.
