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“He found a card to play in the gypsies, but it’s wrong. As a person, I think he should be removed as a deputy, but in reality we have to act with citizenship, because what he wants is to look like a victim.” said Lusa Olga Mariano, president of Associação Letras Nomada.
The re-elected president of the Chega party and announced presidential candidate today defined the former diplomat Ana Gomes as “the gypsy candidate”, after presenting herself as a candidate for the presidential elections in January 2021.
“In a certain metaphor, Ana Gomes is the gypsy candidate for these Presidential elections. I am the common Portuguese, “said Ventura, speaking with the Lusa agency.
The head of the Association for the Research and Promotion of Gypsy Communities – Letras Nomada – also pointed out that the Chega leader has repeatedly demonstrated “xenophobic and racist” positions against the gypsies.
“For him (André Ventura), even we gypsies were who ‘brought the covid’ to Portugal and then the gypsies had to be locked up. I don’t know how far he can keep saying the gaffes he says. , but we are at a point where the Portuguese, gypsies and non-gypsies, must stop it, ”said Olga Mariano.
For Dinis Abreu, president of CIGLEI – Associação Cigana de Leiria, André Ventura’s “metaphor” is discriminatory and, therefore, measures must be taken.
“From my point of view, the only thing it does is racism. As long as the entities at national and European level do not oppose this, there will never be peace and the government must act against these attitudes. Just be willing,” said the president. of CIGLEI, highlighting that Chega’s speech is a “dangerous fuse.”
Also the executive director of the National Obra de la Pastoral de los Gitanos, Francisco Monteiro considered the statements of the Chega leader about hypocritical and illegal gypsies and that the State must act against “hate speech.”
“This is a dishonest thing, it is a dirty thing, objectionable and beyond the most illegal,” said Francisco Monteiro, reacting to André Ventura’s words about the presidential candidacy of Ana Gomes.
