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Book addresses the meteoric growth of arrival and political populism. It has unpublished interviews with André Ventura and the party founder, Nuno Afonso.
Next March 17, at 18:30, Henrique Gouveia and Melo It will present, in the cultural room of El Corte Inglés, in Lisbon, the work “Politicians are all the same”.
By the journalist Gustavo Sampaiothe book makes a detailed analysis of the rise of the arrival and its leader, André Ventura, in Portuguese politics.
“A work that explores the growth of populist movements in the current Portuguese political panorama”, reads in the Editorial Group Presence.
The work was done based on several interviews – including the arrival leader and Nuno Afonsowhich only six years ago founded the one that is today the third political force in Portugal, with 50 deputies elected in the latest legislative elections.
“All this cult, all this sect structure, works like this because it wants it to work like this,” says André Ventura’s former right-handed bowl, who currently represents the internal opposition of the arrival: “He would say to me, ‘I want people, the Portuguese, to lie down to think of me and wreak up thinking about me.’
In addition to focusing on the Portuguese reality, the work draws comparisons with other international parties and populist leaders.
“It is an indispensable, diagnostic and alert book that provides a comparative analysis with populist parties and leaders from other countries, as well as a reflection on anti-political culture that stands out in the genesis of this phenomenon,” one reads in the statement: a “amalgam that prevents distinction between good and bad, competent and inept, selfless and opportunist, honest and corrupt. Because, after all, he is convinced to exhaustion: ‘Politicians are all the same!’
