André Ventura confirmed this Wednesday, November 25th, in statements in Passos Perdidos, in the Assembly of the Republic, that Chega will ask the Public Ministry (MP) for clarifications “about the reasons and foundations that led” to the searches in Albufeira City Council, led by Rui Cristina, for alleged incitement to hatred.
The searches in the municipality are related to statements made by the mayor at the City Council and which are related to housing and the gypsy community. According to André Ventura, the information that reached the party is that “that the grounds that led to these searches were statements by the mayor and president of the council, in a Municipal Assembly, in the exercise of their mandate, saying: ‘This is to give houses to gypsies and I will not join in with that’.”
“If you can’t say that gypsies can’t have privileges in Portugal, if you can’t say that immigrants must follow the same rules as others, if you can’t say that whoever arrives in Portugal has to follow rules and this stops being a political fight and becomes a crime, arrest them“, insisted André Ventura, alluding to Rui Cristina’s statements.
“It’s better to put an end to this charade of a democracy, of pretending that we are in a democracy, when in reality a party approaches power, put an end to it”, considered the Chega leader, while questioning the authorities’ “sense of democracy”.
“Whether you like Chega more or less, it is a democratic party, democratically elected, with the votes of more than a million and a half people”, he recalled.
André Ventura also mentioned the episode of the “explosive device” thrown at protesters, during the weekend, who were participating in the March for Life, accusing: “There we saw neither searches nor coercive action from the police or authorities. It seems that today, in Portugal, the police, the authorities, on someone’s orders, are focused on persecuting those on the right, for some reason.”
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