President Chegi this Thursday accused the PSD of despair for announcing the creation of an electoral coalition with the SDS-PP, and considered that the right should look to the future rather than resort to solutions from the past.
“I think there is a certain desperation here in the non-socialist space to try to find some way to block Chegi’s rise, but this is not about rebuilding parties that are dead, not in parliament or not very powerful. that this will happen,” Andre Ventura said.
The Chega leader spoke to reporters at the entrance to the Chega parliamentary group dinner, which took place in Oeiras (a district of Lisbon).
Andre Ventura believed that “by calling up the same name as a historical coalition and, in fact, having a very vivid memory under the leadership of Francisco Sá Carneiro, the PSD shows that in fact it preferred, instead of looking forward, to look behind”.
“I think that the Portuguese expected and expect an alternative future from the non-socialist bloc. An alternative that is 40 years old and has had its own historical space is certainly not what the Portuguese want,” he said, defending that the Portuguese “would like to have an alternative for the future” that “said it was different.”
The presidents of the PSD and SDS-PP will propose to the national bodies of their parties an electoral coalition, the Democratic Alliance, for the legislative elections in March and the European elections in June, which will also include “independent individuals.”
The press release, entitled “Constitution of the Democratic Alliance” (the name of the first coalitions concluded between the PSD and SDS-PP in the 1980s), said that this agreement “is in line with regional commitments for elections in the Autonomous Region of Madeira and the Azores in 2023 and 2024 respectively, as well as local arrangements regarding local elections in 2025.”
President Chega rejected the idea that the coalition would create difficulties for his party in the March legislative elections and said that “Chega will never agree to be part of a pre-election coalition.”
“It’s relatively indifferent, Chega will continue on his way as predicted,” he said.
Noting that “three parties are fighting for victory: PS, SDP and Chega,” he said that “of course, it is not some pre-election or post-election coalition that will prevent Chega from taking this path.”
Andre Ventura also believed that this coalition would not contribute to the creation of a right-wing majority.
“We face a titanic struggle to defeat the Socialist Party. I think Chega and the SDP should focus on defeating the Socialist Party and getting more votes than all the leftists in parliament. The Socialist Party will probably benefit from this situation,” he added.
Ventura downplayed the CDS-PP presence and said a coalition “might make some sense” with the Liberal Initiative.
“If there was a coalition between the SDP and IL, for example, it would mathematically have a different impact because IL has a different political expression,” he said.
President Chegi also stated that the coalition cannot be called the Democratic Alliance because “PPM is not part of this coalition, and party law requires that they be the same parties and have the same name.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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