Lisbon City Council Building.
“Communes, one day they will pay dearly”, heard in response to the screams of “April 25, always”, after a speech by Afonso Gonçalves, leader of the UltraNationalist group, who did not comply with the Lisbon Assembly rules.
The meeting of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly (AML) was temporarily this Tuesday suspended after intervention by the president of the Reconquest Ultranationalist Group, Afonso Gonçalveswhich was removed from the room by the Municipal Police for disobeying the rules of this organ.
Making use of the period of intervention open to the public, which is dedicated to the exposure of problems by the citizens, Afonso Gonçalves presented himself as president and founder of reconquest And he said he would talk about security and crime in Lisbon.
Like the other citizens, he had three minutes to make his intervention and used this time mostly to ask, several times, “silence in the room”, taking into account the “buzz”.
“It is curious that it has to be a citizen to establish some rules of common sense and democratic respect,” he said.
In response, AML President Rosario Farmhouse (PS) said that “the assembly always has some dynamics and some background noise” and warned: “This is Lisbon Municipal Assembly, not its assemblytherefore, I thank you to make your intervention with the rules of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly. ”
Rosario Farmhouse questioned the microphone in the lapel of Afonso Gonçalves, who had people filming it in the room, and the usual transmission of AML was being made, and the president of the ultranationalist group said that the services allowed it.
After using most of the three minutes to exchange words with the president of AML about the rules of this organ, in particular the issue of silence during the intervention, Afonso Gonçalves asked for the restoration of time. Rosario Farmhouse replied that it was not possible, but admitted to giving “some tolerance.”
“I come to give voice to the problems of the Lisbon, in a realistic and honest way, despite the censorship and the silencing that have tried to impose and to which I am today’s Lisbon is no longer the true Lisbon.
Despite this indication, the reconquest representative disobeyed and continued to speak, staying on stage. Rosario Farmhouse lamented the “injurious speech to the members of this Assembly”, noting that it would be possible to send information in writing.
Afonso Gonçalves insisted on continuing to talk, namely about immigration, and was again warned by the president: “You cannot come here to dictate the rules of the Municipal Assembly.”
“It is shameful your way of doing democracy”considered the president of the Reconquista.
Following this intervention, the president temporarily suspended the session and Two elements of the Municipal Police removed Afonso Gonçalves from the stage.
The leftist parties shouted “April 25 always, fascism never again”, to what an element of the Reconquista group answered, while filming: “Communes. One day they will pay dearly.”
The reconquesting group presents itself, on its website, as a political movement based on three pillars: “Homeland-preserving the Portuguese ethnocultural identity-defending traditional family, social and cultural values;
The group and its leader, today expelled from the Assembly, It has been associated with André Ventura and arrives.
“Sentura to share the reconquest symbol next to the arrival symbol and with an aesthetic associated with remigration, and there are still people to doubt?
The group is the same one that managed to rent and meet at the same assembly in November, in an event that had militants who declarely follow the doctrine of Adolf Hitlerwith prominent figures in the international far-right scenario, such as Steve Laws, a self-titled British “Migrant Hunter”Dries van langenhove, a relief figure in the far right, and Keith Woods, an Irishman with connections to I klux clan., the express at the time.
The group reinforces that it is not NeoNazi: the reconquest “is a nationalist and traditionalist organization;
