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Chega’s leader, André Ventura, suggested this Monday night on TVI that the future viability of a “right-wing” government and that it opposes the PS on the continent – for example, on the path that Chega made viable in the Azores- will depend on the fight against the “subsidiary dependency” of the Roma community.
The suggestion was made by the Chega leader in an interview with the political commentator and writer Miguel Sousa Tavares. During the interview, Ventura said: “If Chega ever has to make a national government viable, integrate it, make it feasible, make some changes to the right, there is a question that will be on the table immediately: to solve once and for all the problem that thousands, not to mention millions of Portuguese with gypsies in Portugal ”.
What is this problem that, for the leader of Chega, “thousands, not to mention millions of Portuguese with gypsies in Portugal” – and that Ventura poses as a future requirement to enable a right-wing government on the continent? “Roma communities live mainly on subsidies.” There are “three or four, or ten or 20, who do not live”, but “most live”, and the State has to do something about it and the “problem with justice” that “the Roma community has, tends”, Since “they are in the prison population well above their real population.”
It is not yet clear what proposals Chega has to solve “the problem that thousands, not to mention millions of Portuguese have with the gypsies.” In the political program, available on the party’s website, no reference is made to proposals related to Roma. It refers only generically, in the subject for Social Security proposals, that “the guaranteed minimum income must correspond to the obligation of the services provided to the community” and that “community service must be instituted during the granting of the benefit for unemployment”. . However, it is not certain that these are the measures that Ventura has in mind to solve “the problem of the gypsy community.”
Also in the programmatic manifesto “70 measures to lift Portugal” there are no references by Chega to the gypsy community or to specific proposals that specifically affect this community.
Among the proposals that specifically focus on the Roma community already announced in the past by Chega is a suggestion of ethnic confinement, that is, a proposal to specifically confine this community in the context of the new coronavirus pandemic. It was announced in May by the party leader, who said, in an interview with newspaper I: “A specific containment plan for the Roma community is needed.”
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The hypothesis of the integration of a government – not only of viability – was also admitted by the Chega leader in this interview with TVI, when he stressed that it would be necessary for a government to face the problems of the gypsy community for the party to admit be part of an Executive.
The position contrasts with the statements made by André Ventura at the last Arriving Convention, which took place a few weeks ago. There, the Chega leader flatly rejected any possibility of a coalition with the other right-wing parties: “I want to tell you something: while I sit in that middle chair, coalitions or even see them with one of the parties in Portugal. Don’t even see them! ”André Ventura said.
More recently, 23 days ago, in statements to the weekly Expresso and about a possible right-wing government in the Azores, the Chega leader had said: “We are totally unavailable to get along with the parties of the system.” And he said more: that the party “does not trust the Socialists or the Social Democrats.”
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In this interview with TVI, André Ventura also commented on the negotiations with the PSD in the Azores: “I would never put a community that had not articulated with the PSD. I’ll let PSD clear things up. I would never speak for other parts ”.
Last Thursday, the Observer said that the PSD forced the Chega leader to clarify references to possible national agreements between the two parties, in the statement that Ventura’s party intended to disseminate. Adão Silva, leader of the PSD parliamentary caucus, was contacted by Ventura with a first version of a statement that Chega wanted to make known about the agreement in the Azores. That first version was returned by the leader of the PSD parliamentary caucus, who demanded that Ventura make it clear in the statement that there was no national agreement between the two parties, only a regional agreement.
Now André Ventura opens the door to national agreements and not only regional ones, but he marks a red line: without facing the problem of the gypsy community, nothing has been done on the continent.
