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Chega / Açores leader Carlos Furtado resigned from his post this Sunday after disagreements with fellow regional deputy José Pacheco, with whom he must dispute the internal election, party sources told Lusa.
“I confirm that the leader of Chega / Açores requested his resignation and that he agreed with me on the need for an electoral clarification. As president-elect of the party, I will meet immediately with the National Directorate, upon my arrival in Lisbon, so that, immediately, the electoral process in the Autonomous Region of the Azores begins ”, confirmed the national leader, André Ventura, who is at the end of this month.- week in the archipelago, initially only to organize the municipal race in September / October.
Deadlock in the Azores. Chega deputies do not understand each other and Ventura threatens to remove regional leader
A regional source from the far-right parliamentary party told Agência Lusa that Carlos Furtado intends to return to the leadership and that Chega’s other regional deputy, José Pacheco, will also advance the dispute, predictably by two.
Given the disagreement between the two Chega regional leaders, Ventura met twice with both parties, but, according to the same regional source, the differences remained, especially after the public controversy over the Social Insertion Income (RSI).
According to Chega sources in the region, the two deputies advocate different projects for Chega in the region, admitting that, if the current regional leader loses in the internal elections, support for the regional government “will not be so incisive.”
The regional crisis in the populist party was made visible with a message posted on a page of an official social network by José Pacheco against the increase in RSI beneficiaries verified in those islands.
The publication was later deleted by the regional leader, Carlos Furtado, who wrote that Chega’s regional director and himself have “the best attention” to the problems of “excess RSI” and the “objective of finding effective solutions, being that in this At this moment the responsibilities “, which are” attributable to them, do not allow easy and populist criticism.
The reduction of RSI beneficiaries in the Azores was one of the key ideas defended by Chega in the electoral campaign until the suffrage of October 25, 2020 and one of the main ones in the negotiations with the PSD / Azores, with a view to making the New Viable Regional Government, after 24 years of PS power.
The social democrat José Manuel Bolieiro has been in charge of the Azorean Executive for more than 100 days, in a coalition with the CDS-PP and PPM, and also has support in the Chega parliament and the Liberal Initiative to complete the parliamentary majority.
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