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The former leader of the Porto district sent Chega a request for dismissal, “with immediate effect,” for not agreeing or identifying with the party’s direction in recent months. In the letter, sent on Friday, Jorge Pires affirms that he does not provide a militant card, “because it, although paid for,” was never delivered to him and he appreciates “a quick response to his request.”
The last straw that overflowed the patience of militant 915, who joined Chega a year ago and resigned from the Porto district leadership in April after a motion of no-confidence from the local political commission, was André Ventura’s ban on all references . The negative press or social networks “that damage the image” of the party and know that he was one of the targets of the purge “that dares to disagree with the leadership.
“In a democratic country, the attempt at a unanimous opinion and the persecution of those who dare to criticize the negative direction that the party is taking is intolerable,” says the Ventura sympathizer, who claims to know from an unofficial source that he was a target of the “sanctioning processes”. Although he opposes “the free insult of militants on social networks or the internal guerrilla movement moved by the venues and venues”, the former president of the Porto district defends that nothing is worse for Chega’s image than “the imposition of a plug law aimed at punishments, such as suspension or even expulsion, for a crime of opinion ”.
“I joined Chega for believing in André Ventura and the program of a right-wing conservative party that aims to solve the real problems of the Portuguese, especially the most forgotten, who live in the interior of the country and struggle every year with lack. doctors, teachers, jobs, and they are barely remembered in electoral campaigns, “says Jorge Pires, confessing disappointed to see that, after all, the party,” instead of embracing causes, cares more about the external image, similar to traditional festivals ”.
The militant regrets that André Ventura “listens more to those who charge and not to those who make constructive internal criticism”, in the party’s own organs. “I never went to social networks to make gratuitous insults or to denigrate militants, but I do not admit that there are reprisals directed at those who criticize, in the National Council or Convention, bad practices within the party, such as changing the electoral college on the eve of the last elections in the District of Porto, or that the Jurisdictional Council does not even deign to respond to the challenge of an electoral act ”.
For Jorge Pires, “it is enormous pride” that the process that the party was preparing to move “was at the request of Diogo Pacheco Amorim.” “As he was unable to respond to my criticism on the spot, which shows that he had no arguments to fight me, he maneuvered behind the scenes so that disciplinary measures were taken, which all leads me to believe that it was to expel me for what I think”, Add.
At the party’s last convention, in September, Jorge Pires criticized the fact that Pacheco Amorim is a member of the Fundação De Paço, created by the Portuguese-American businessman Caeser DePaço based in Cascais, when the party had already spoken out against of foundations.
“How is it possible to want Chega to be a credible party when it proclaims one thing and does another?” Asks Jorge Pires, who recalls the criticism of Ventura’s “promiscuity between politics and football” of António Costa for being part of the Honor Commission. Luís Filipe Vieira, “but allows his substitute to be part of a Foundation that owns the SAD of a football club (Canelas).”
“Perhaps these drifts and authoritarian tics are growing pains of a new party that wants to impose itself on the national scene, after having managed to make the Government of the Azores viable, but I prefer to go out to agree with injustices and persecutions”, affirms the president of the Association . of Pediatric Oncology of the Hospital de São João.
André Ventura’s directive to silence internal critics could, according to Jorge Pires, lead to the abandonment of more militants in the coming days. “I know that there are more first-time supporters of the party who do not get involved in this way of doing politics,” emphasizes the dissident. This Saturday, Chega suspended Bento Marçal Mestre, president of the Junta de Setúbal, said the Observer.
