Chegi President Andre Ventura said on Tuesday that the Azores is a “very strong symbol” of the party and a “main battleground” in regional and national elections scheduled for February and March.
“The Azores have become a very strong symbol of Chega. Because of its history, its presence and because it was Chega’s first big test of 2020,” Andre Ventura told reporters during a street rally in the island town of Ribeira Grande. San Miguel, where he was accompanied, among others, by the regional leader of Chega/Azores, José Pacheco.
President Chegi admitted that the situation in the archipelago is “very different” from that which existed in 2020: “We feel great support on the street, there is a great desire for change and the party is in a completely different situation at the national level.” level, but the Azores continues to be a priority for us.”
“There is a great fight going on here with subsidies. There is a great fight against poverty going on here. There is a great struggle here to support families and those who work. Here we work and fight cronyism, nepotism and complicity of the regional government and the national government,” he said.
The Azores will become Chegi’s “main battlefield,” he stressed.
Andre Ventura said that the regional elections on February 4 are “a very big gamble” for the party he leads, and that he intends to return to the Azores on the first day of the campaign and in its last week to “support José Pacheco’s candidacy for the presidency of the regional government” and various parliamentary candidates.
“It will be a very big gamble,” he added, stressing that he hopes Chega will “achieve the best possible result” in the elections.
He also believes that the Autonomous Region will have “corresponding weight” at the national level and that the party hopes to elect deputies to the Assembly of the Republic from the circle of the Autonomous Region of the Azores on March 10, therefore “this is a double task to be accomplished this year.”
At the start of the rally, held in the center of Ribeira Grande, which included photographs, calls for voting, wishes for a good year, and the distribution of brochures and pens, Ventura told reporters he intended to convey the message that “there is an alternative.” “for the elections on February 4, which will take place in Chega.
In the last three years, Chega “carried responsibility” and proposed “changes,” he recalled.
In his opinion, given the work done, it is “very important” that his party can strengthen voices in the Azores archipelago.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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