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The PSD leader has dedicated himself to an eager and committed effort to explain the inexplicable: the agreement in the Azores that, as we have already written, normalizes Chega and transforms a party that hates the party and the parliamentary system into a party of the party and parliamentary system. The lambskin that Chega lacked so much came free. He took the remaining step to climb the steps of power. Rui Rio opened the doors to a new era in Portuguese politics, which until now had stood out in Europe for its armor of the radical right, and with this initiative crossed Rubicão. Nothing will be like before. The democratic and civilized right wing has been exposed to the virus of populism and demagoguery and is further at risk of upheaval; and the PSD sheds its social democratic skin and will hardly fail to be seen as the political force that whitewashed the xenophobic, illiberal and aggressive message of basic human rights from André Ventura’s party.
We have thus reached the point where the challenge to Chega’s parliamentary support in the Azores is no longer left, moderate or radical. The decent right, whether from the liberal or conservative faction, came out to the public to express their censure. The PSD begins to convulse. In politics, there are agreements that are worth far beyond what is written. It is irrelevant that Chega is not part of the powerful coalition in Ponta Delgada. It does not matter that the terms of the agreement are not “fascist”, as Rui Rio says. It does not matter that it is a remote business, made in an archipelago far from the capital. Between the intransigence that Rui Rio expresses in relation to so many essential values and his consent to a spurious business that guarantees him power in the islands, there is a distance that is difficult to understand.
Arguments that they believe that Chega’s normalization is of little value are of little value are the best way to get Ventura and his acolytes out of extremism – something similar to the experience that led the Bloc and the PCP to swallow the European rules on the deficit or the existence of in health. In the same way, only illusion allows us to believe that, with Chega no return, the PSD meets more conditions to federate a right-wing bloc with majority aspirations – the proximity of Ventura could prevent many people from voting in the PSD. What remains in this business that turns the page on Portuguese democracy is, therefore, the dangerous transfiguration for the country and for the democracy of the party of Sá Carneiro, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa or Mota Pinto. As the old wise aphorism says: “Tell me who you are with, I will tell you who you are.”
