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The 11,313 Chega militants who have their quotas up to date (out of a total of 20,000) are summoned on Saturday to vote in the direct elections to the presidency in which the founder, current leader and sole deputy of the party, André Ventura, also participates. the only candidate, so only the level of participation and the number of blank and invalid votes will be at stake. But at the end of the afternoon, the decision of the militants regarding the internal referendum that will define whether the party will begin to defend the return of the death penalty, abolished in Portugal in 1867, will also be known.
“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?” This is the question that will be asked of 11,313 activists, after André Ventura has stated that he is against the death penalty, due to his “formation and Christian faith”, although he defends that life imprisonment becomes the harshest criminal framework From Portugal. .
This Friday, in a video message addressed to the militants, André Ventura asked for the participation of the militants – who have the right to vote as long as they are registered until August 25 and with regularized fees up to 48 hours before the start of the elections- to give strength. the party in the electoral battles that follow, with the regional battles of the Azores on October 25, the presidential battles of January 2021 (in which the Czech leader seeks to stop the re-election of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa) and the municipalities, to be held in September or October of that year.
Voting takes place in person, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. this Saturday, in all the districts of mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores (in Ponta Delgada), at party facilities and also in places such as hotels and restaurants. In addition to the dimension of the re-election of Ventura and the referendum on the death penalty, delegates will be elected to the II National Convention of Chega, which will be held on September 19 and 20 in the city of Évora, from which the new governing bodies.
The districts where there are more registered voters are Lisbon (2,816), Porto (1,601) and Setúbal (1,036), followed by Braga (915), Faro (724), Santarém (640), Aveiro (584), Coimbra. (531) and Leiria (492). Évora has 309 militants with quotas in days, Viseu has 303 and Madeira 224, while Viana do Castelo has 177, Castelo Branco 176, Vila Real 156, Beja 152, Azores 130, Portalegre 125, Guarda 117 and Bragança 105.
The direct election for the presidency of Chega is due to the fact that André Ventura has been dismissed since April, reacting to what he said was the internal opposition of those who, attracted by the growth of the party in the polls, “always look for a place in the sun, at all costs, without scruples, without rules, they are always waiting for the right moment to attack, they want to make Chega a kind of second PSD, or second SP or second CDS ”.
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