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The re-elected president of Chega and announced presidential candidate, André Ventura, defined the former diplomat Ana Gomes as “the gypsy candidate”, after presenting herself as a competitor in the presidential elections in January 2021.
“In a certain metaphor, Ana Gomes is the gypsy candidate of these presidential candidates. I am the common Portuguese, “said Ventura, speaking with the Lusa agency. For Ventura, the former socialist MEP “will not reach the second round” of the elections for head of state.
“I am going to play the second round with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa [actual Presidente e que só anunciará uma decisão sobre uma eventual recandidatura em Novembro] and it will be the most spectacular second round in our democratic history ”, he predicted.
Ana Gomes is going to be the worst presidential candidate in history: hysterical, obsessed with her favorite enemies, friend of the minorities who live off our work. If I was in front of me, I would resign as leader of Chega. It’s not going to happen!
– André Ventura (@AndreCVentura) September 8, 2020
No twitter André Ventura had already reacted to the news advanced by the PUBLIC, saying that Ana Gomes will be the worst candidate in history and threatening to resign if she stands in front of him. The request will be sent publicly on Thursday.
“Only the most naive believed in reflection and long periods of meditation. Luckily Ana Gomes advances. She is the faithful representative of the minorities that do not work and of the poor who demand the racism of the Portuguese. It is the opposite of my candidacy, which brings together ordinary Portuguese ”, defended the leader of Chega.
“Ana Gomes runs against António Costa and against me. I am opposed to the system that destroys the lives of the Portuguese ”, André Ventura concluded.
In a recent interview with the weekly Quick, the prime minister considered that if Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa did not run again “there was a serious problem throughout the country.” Costa also said that, to exercise the functions of head of government, he will adopt an attitude of “modesty” in the next presidential elections.
Meanwhile, in the PS, the candidacy of Ana Gomes has already received the support of the former parliamentary leader and former MEP Francisco Assis and the leader of the minority tendency in the socialist political commission, Daniel Adrião.
André Ventura, who was re-elected on Saturday as president of Chega’s national leadership, as the only candidate, with 99.1% of the votes, announced that he will begin “a new stage” of the party, which he predicts will become the third force politics. in the next legislative elections (2023, if the current legislature is fulfilled).
Chega will elect the new remaining governing bodies at its II National Convention, scheduled for the 19th and 20th, in Évora.
Gypsy pastoralism criticizes “hate speech”
The executive director of the National Obra de la Pastoral de los Gitanos, Francisco Monteiro, considers that the statements of the Chega leader about the gypsies are hypocritical and illegal, 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.
“It is a hypocritical and unfair statement, because all this only serves to hunt votes from the extreme right. Chega’s objective is to seek votes anyway: to make fun, to be racist, to use the discourse against gypsies that he has been using for many years, since he was in the PSD, ”added the head of the Pastoral de los Gitanos.
For Francisco Monteiro, it is “very important” that the State, “and not only the government,” act quickly against this racist and anti-Gypsy discourse.
“If justice in this country works as it should, with the laws of the European Union and ours on racism and hate speech, the head of Chega should already have a lawsuit,” said the official, highlighting that Gypsies suffer “for disgrace “every day this kind of speech.
Also the president of the Nomad Letters Association, Olga Mariano, has already regretted Ventura’s words. “She found a card in the gypsies to play with, but she is wrong. As a person, I believe that he should be removed as a deputy, but we, in fact, have to act with citizenship, because what he wants is to appear like a victim, ”he told the Lusa agency.
Updated at 2:12 pm, adding statements by the president of the Associação Letras Nomada
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