In the view of Mariana Mortágua, party coordinator, the “value chain” of the head of the Executive “is distorted” because the prime minister “is in competition with the extreme right on issues such as security and immigration”.
Mariana Mortágua accuses the prime minister of taking over after the demonstration in Martim Moniz, in Lisbon, last Saturday, was marked by strong police control.
Mortágua claims that in Saturday’s demonstration against racism and xenophobia, called “Don’t push us against the wall”, “the country of wisdom, freedom, democracy” took to the streets, “the pride of a country that wants to be anti-racist” and “you don’t want to let yourself be consumed by hatred, selfishness, lies.”
“If the prime minister understands that this country of freedom, of democracyof equality, of solidarity, of truth is an extreme, it is because the value chain itself, the Prime Minister’s organization of values is distorted and we know why”, accused the blocker.
The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda says that for Luís Montenegro to understand that “there is some type of extremism in these thousands of people who take to the streets in the name of freedom” is because “he has already adopted the far-right narrative”.
“Proof of this is that he ordered, and was part of, an operation to instrumentalize the police, precisely to validate and taking into account a wrong perception that makes immigration equal to insecurity”, accuses the party leader.
In Mariana Mortágua’s view, the “value chain” of the PSD/CDS-PP chief executive “is distorted” because Montenegro “is in competition with the extreme right on issues such as security and immigration”.
Mariana Mortágua also mentions that the law “applies equally to all people”, which is why she believes that “all incidents”, regardless of location, must be managed in the same way:
“This is how we guarantee security in Portugal and not with instrumentalization actions by the police that do not bring security, as has been seen.”
The demonstration took place less than a month after a police operation that placed dozens of immigrants against the wall in Martim Moniz, an action considered discriminatory and which led to widespread criticism.
