The President of Chegi, André Ventura, expressed this Saturday his satisfaction with the approaching end of the term of office of the President of the Republic, whom he has tasked with responding to the investigation into the case of the twins being treated at the Santa Maria Hospital.
“In a year and a half, we will finally get rid of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,” he emphasized.
Andre Ventura, speaking at a dinner/rally in Torres Novas (Santarem district) with the participation of about 400 people as part of the election campaign for the European elections, accused the head of state of betraying “his people, his history, his workers.” .
“Fortunately, we have one year left before we fully complete our function,” he said.
The term of office of the President of the Republic ends in March 2026, but in the previous six months he cannot dissolve the Assembly of the Republic.
Andre Ventura also once again demanded that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa respond to the commission of inquiry into the twins case imposed by his party.
“I hope he will answer anyway, because he is running, and the president is not going to. I don’t want to believe that the president who has always asked for transparency from everyone, including Chegu, now that he is involved in a matter that is serious […] exempts himself from responsibility and justice or evades them,” he said.
And he left a direct message: “Dr. Marcelo Rebelo de Souza, there are times in life when we define ourselves as politicians. Responding to this commission of inquiry, responding with fairness and transparency is not just a matter of being a politician or not, it is about holding public office with dignity and integrity.”
“If you believe in truth, if you believe in transparency, answer this commission of inquiry, answer the Portuguese on this case,” he added.
There were shouts and whistles in the room as the Chegi leader found it “shocking” that the President of the Republic would advocate reparations to former colonies.
Andre Ventura believed that “this country, which gave the world worlds, will never be ashamed of its history and will not pay a cent to anyone dependent on Chegi” because it left there “much more” than it received.
“And if we never paid a cent to those who were forced to flee with nothing, whom Portugal abandoned to their fate in 1975, if we never gave them a cent, if we never gave the families of those returning from Africa a cent, if we leave ex-combatants in abject poverty, what should we pay our former colonies? Zero, we will not pay anything to the former overseas provinces,” he said.