Alliance politics, statements by the President of the European Commission and housing marked the differences between PS and AD in Tuesday’s European RTP debate, where the PCP criticized the “healthy coexistence of the European Union with the far right.”
The four-way debate, held this evening on RTP, featured Marta Temido (PS), Sebastian Bugalho (AD), António Tangier Correa (Chega) and João Oliveira (PKP), and was marked by disagreements over the war in Ukraine and the recent events. statements by the Chief of Naval Staff, Gouveia e Melo.
When the moderator, journalist Carlos Daniel, criticized Marta Temido for the statements of the President of the European Commission and asked her if she agreed with the idea that these European Parliament elections were a struggle between democratic forces and those close to Putin, the Head of the PS list believes that Ursula von der Leyen ” does not know which side she will take in relation to this struggle,” since she allows political partnership with extreme right-wing political forces.
“This worries us very much,” he said, believing that it is necessary, without dramatization, to tell people what is at stake in these elections.
The head of the AD list disputed the socialist opposition’s claim, with Marta Temido citing a news story that said Ursula von der Leyen was “opening the door to the far right” and Bugalho responding that “that doesn’t mean she’s on the list.” Putin’s side.”
“Marta Temido, either she doesn’t express herself well, or she doesn’t understand what this news is about. Von der Leyen opens the door to conservatives and reformists, but we cannot unite the group “Identity and Democracy” with the group of conservatives and reformists,” she objected to Bugallo.
At this stage of the debate, candidate Chegi considered that the characterization of his party as far-right was incorrect and that this political force “does not rely on outdated ideologies closer to the Communist Party.”
“Chega is a conversational party and does not support Mr. Putin at all, on the contrary,” he said.
Regarding the possible change of Chega’s group in Europe, Tangier Correa mentioned everything after the results of the European elections, adding that “at that time there could be negotiations to increase the support base of the conservative region in which Chega will be included.” future.
Asked whether he was considering uniting the Identity and Democracy groups and the Conservatives and Reformists in the next European Parliament, candidate Chegi said: “I don’t rule it out, but that doesn’t mean I’m considering it.”
Regarding the PCP, João Oliveira criticized the “healthy coexistence of the European Union with the far right” because, “with the exception of a few wars with rosemary and marjoram”, the far right “does not question either militarism or neoliberalism.”
“Neither the European Union is the police of democracy nor Mrs von der Leyen is a good police chief,” he said.
Another moment that marked a heated exchange of arguments between Temido and Bugalho was when the PS candidate declared that “Europe is under attack not only by war, but also by “its core values and concept of solidarity, which is collapsing.” “
“These are not traditional right-wing projects that coexist well with the far right because they are more or less acceptable and encourage us to solve these problems,” he charged.
In response, the AD candidate agreed that “extremes threaten the rule of law and democracy” but refused to “accept the moral lessons of the PS’s acquiescence and complacency towards the far right.”
“Socialists in Europe and the right-wing group in the EP together voted with 823 votes,” he said.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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