Chegi leader Andre Ventura said on Saturday there would be no agreement with Miguel Albuquerque’s PSD after elections in the autonomous region of Madeira because the party has “zero tolerance” for corruption.
Andre Ventura made these statements at a rally held in Boliqueim, municipality of Loule, attended by about 150 supporters and during which he thanked Chegu for winning the Algarve legislative elections.
“Everyone knows one thing: we don’t get along with corrupt officials,” said the Chegi president.
Andre Ventura assured that, “no matter what Miguel Albuquerque,” the leader of the PSD of Madeira and the party’s candidate in the elections to the regional parliament, says, there is a “red line” that Chega will not cross.
“Whatever majority is obtained, and I hope that Chega will grow significantly, there will be no agreement with us in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, because we have zero tolerance for corruption,” he assured.
The president of the third-largest party in the last legislative elections addressed about 150 dinner participants after attending the party’s 17th National Council meeting in Faro this afternoon.
At the party meeting in Faro, the members of the national council elected at the VI National Convention were sworn in and voted on the party’s annual report – the 2024 budget and the reports for the 2023 fiscal year – and carried out an analysis of the election campaign. results and general political situation.
“It was here on this earth [Algarve] that we won, and I think it’s symbolic because one day I want – me or Chega – to win all over the country, and I think we have to cultivate the moments in which we win,” Andre Ventura told the lunch diners. praising the party’s victory in the Faro region.
Andre Ventura considered that he had suffered a “defeat” by not winning the elections at the national level, but stressed that if the five-year-old party managed to win in the Algarve and “break the bipartisanship”, then it could win at the national level in the future.
“The victory in the entire district is not my victory and not a victory because I fought as party president, but it is a great victory for history and I thank you all for this victory,” Ventura told activists and leaders of the Algarve region.
Andre Ventura said that he “does not agree to live in a country where they say that the PS and PSD must always govern, and that Chega will one day not be able to govern.”
“I believe that with or without me, one day we will win the Portuguese legislative elections,” he said.
Andre Ventura also criticized the new PSD government over immigration, saying that before winning the election the Social Democrats were in favor of border controls and the reversal of the closure of the Aliens and Border Guard Service, but now he is with the Democratic Alliance. program (coalition of PSD, CDS and PPM) of the migration agency.
“We know very well that Portugal needs immigrants, but we know one thing: we need the police to control our borders, they promised us that we would control our borders, but they did not because they are weak and careless in immigration , which we have never had and never will have,” he said.