Rui Tavares warns that “vote theft between left-wing parties does not contribute to the growth of the left”

Livre’s spokesman Rui Tavares warned this Friday that “the theft of votes between left-wing parties does not lead to the growth of the left”, reiterating that Livre is “in the same place” and emphasizing that it has never made a decontextualization regarding the partners.

“Vote theft between left-wing parties does not help the left grow. It could also greatly inflame internal sectarianism, which is never desirable, but it also doesn’t bring us an inch closer to the victory the left needs.” have in these elections,” he said. Rui Tavares during a visit to a kindergarten in Lisbon as part of the campaign for the legislative elections on the 10th.

This position of the Livre leader came after Tavares admitted on Thursday that he had held dialogue with the right, but only about the “health” of democracy, namely the establishment of a national compensation circle in legislative elections, the fight against corruption or justice reform. .

Following these statements by the leader of Livre, BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua declared at a rally in Leiria that the “strong left” should be completely focused on defeating the “PSD/IL alliance” and not on projects of dialogue with them. power politics.

When asked whether this controversy could separate Livret from partners such as BE, Rui Tavares denied this, emphasizing that “Livret is in the same place where it has always been” and noted that “perhaps the difference is only in the political context, the campaign context, the polling context, the context of anything that causes others to make misinterpretations.”

“We are not deceived by either our allies or our opponents. We are leftists, and on the Livre side there is no beginning of any false problem that could cause us to create misunderstanding among the leftists, and we have also never undertaken decontextualization.” this would force other leftist parties to attack. And there were several of them, and Livre never engages in decontextualization,” he assured.

The historian repeated the “motto” he insisted on during the election campaign: “Livre is part of the solution in the majority of the left; if there is a majority on the right or a right-wing government, Livre is part of the opposition.”

Asked whether he was considering introducing or approving a proposal to reject the minority government of the Democratic Alliance (PSD, coalition of CDS-PP and PPM), Tavares did not rule out this hypothesis “if he considers it necessary”, but criticized the fact that Chega has already announced the proposal before knowing the government program or the list of the next leader.

The leader reiterated that Livre would never approve Cega’s motion to reject it, and noted that, with the exception of votes of regret, the parties on the left, the PS, Livre and PCP, “never voted for any motion.” from Andre Ventura’s party.

Rui Tavares was also asked to comment on statements from the head of the AD list, Santarem, who on Thursday said Portugal had lost investments for “false climate reasons”, arguing that “extremes have always existed” and warned that Farmers were already talking about organizing armed militias before face of “robberies in the fields.”

The leader admitted that he did not listen to them, but about “false climate reasons” he warned that the country needs “politicians who do not deny reality.”

“There are left-wing environmentalists, which Livre represents, and there are right-wingers, who seem to have very strong elements of denial, not denying that there were those on the right who had more environmental problems, but obviously this is not the right that we have. today,” he said.