The plan of confinement for the Roma communities is increasingly far from being a “common proposal”

The creation of a specific containment plan for the Roma communities seems to be further and further away from becoming a common proposal, as the Chega leader announced that it was his intention. Speaking to me, André Ventura declared, at the beginning of the week, that he was going to address the PSD, CDS and the Liberal Initiative with the aim of presenting a common proposal this week.

The CDS source told SOL this Friday that the party “considers that the problems of insecurity are not solved with ridiculous and unconstitutional proposals, which do not even deserve a response.”
The Liberal Initiative was the first of the three parties to deviate from this proposal, arguing, in statements to the newspaper i, “that each person is individually responsible for their actions and, therefore, does not see groups, much less ethnic groups, when he discusses development of, and respect for, legislation that applies to all Portuguese. ” The same idea was also reinforced this Friday, in a letter signed by the party president to which the Lusa agency had access.

In the document, and in relation to “the end result”, the party “flatly refuses to participate in the definition of a ‘specific plan for Roma and health and safety problems'”. “The fact that the question was asked as it was and was addressed only to parties in the non-socialist area, leads the Liberal Initiative to conclude that the real objective of the challenge is to obtain electoral advantages at the expense of these parties and not that of combat socialist and statist forces in parliament ”, can be read in the letter signed by the party president.

Despite the initial intention to present a common proposal, André Ventura guaranteed, on Wednesday, that, if he does not have the support of either party, Chega will present a proposal “alone and will try to bring it to plenary for discussion.”