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The president of Chega, André Ventura, during the commemorative session of the 25th of November, at the Assembly of the Republic.
Democracy is no longer useful, in the eyes of André Ventura. For some, the November 25th ceremony was a session of “pure revenge” approved by those who “felt sorry” for the arrival of April 25th.
“As Jaime Neves said about the war in Ultramar, it was really like this: ‘when they told us to clean we cleaned everything‘. We’ve already started, let’s continue.”
Citing one of the most controversial figures of the post-25th of April era and attributing violence against women to immigration, Andre Ventura made several deputies leave parliament this Monday during his speech on the occasion of , held in the Assembly of the Republic for the first time.
Chega’s leader “praised massacres of the colonial war” with the green light from the PSD, says in Ana Sá Lopes this Monday.
“’When we were told to clean, we cleaned everything’? This is massacring villages. THE Enough also wants to clean everythingI assume it refers to the left”, says the journalist about Ventura’s reference to the former leader of the Amadora Commando Regiment, one of the military units that put an end to the influence of the radical military left and led to the end of the PREC.
The ceremony on November 25th was a “pure revenge” session in which the PSD allowed this “exaltation of colonial violence”.
“The parents of many people sitting there [na bancada] of the PSD lived very well under the dictatorship and felt sorry, it cost them a lot for the 25th of April to arrive and that is why the right approved this session which was just a cultural war (…) There’s no story“, said the main editor of the newspaper.
The PSD “gave the stage” to Ventura and the approval to “include the entire agenda” of Chega in his speech, says Helena Pereira: the fight against the dictatorship that became the fight against corruption and the Soviet threat that turned the threat of immigration into the eyes of Ventura, to whom “democracy is no longer useful”the leader also said.
“Our democracy is in permanent change, without fear, because the Portuguese people no longer see themselves in artificial ceremonies that no longer tell them anything or haunt them”, said Ventura shortly after highlighting the importance of “not forgetting” the 25th of April.
