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The Chega leader dramatized his speech this Saturday in response to the socialist and mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, who on Friday raised the possibility that the newly formed party could be outlawed.
“It is an affront never seen in democracy, typical of dictatorships, of a mayor with dictatorial tics, when the intention is to refer to the darkness which is, according to polls, the third or fourth Portuguese political force,” he said in statements to the Lusa Agency.
According to the only deputy of the national-populist party, “if Chega is outlawed, its supporters, militants and leaders will not magically disappear and will continue to fight in secret, against a system that has forgotten what democracy was.”
“The system needs to know this: we will not stop fighting even if they use the lowest weapons against us. To ban Chega is to send thousands of people to the clandestine struggle … And we are willing to do that! ”, He promised.
Ventura stressed that “they want to outlaw Chega to earn in the secretariat what they do not get at the polls.”
Fernando Medina, in an interview with The Observer, accused the PSD of contributing to the normalization of Chega, referring to the viability agreement of the Regional Government of the Azores and stated: “I admit that the issue of outlawing Chega will be raised.”
For the mayor of Lisbon, the far-right parliamentary party should be considered illegal because it is “xenophobic, racist and intolerant”.
“They will not pass. In Chega, we will fight to the end. Until they realize that we come forever and we are willing to sacrifice our lives for Portugal. Make Chega illegal? They will have 30 years of clandestine and very hard struggle!” Ventura guaranteed.
The Chega presidential candidate also regretted that his Belém Palace competitor Ana Gomes, a diplomat and former Socialist MEP, also defended the outlawing of her party.
The former Portuguese ambassador in Jakarta considered “the ridiculous” fine imposed on “a deputy” who had “once again taken measures absolutely contrary to democracy”, alluding to the fine that Ventura was notified this week by the Equality and Equality Commission. Against Racial Discrimination (CICDR), due to a message on a social network about the gypsy community.
In the opinion of Ana Gomes, the leaders of democratic institutions “cannot compromise with complacent strategies in relation to racist and xenophobic forces that are prohibited by the Constitution,” and he pointed out to the Public Ministry and the Constitutional Court.
