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André Ventura in the Electoral Campaign of Arri (2024)
André Ventura would be more protected if he had taken umbrella after being received with spits by the Gypsy community on Wednesday in Braga. The arrival leader was called “fascist and racist” by the Protestants who sang for the PS.
André Ventura was received this Wednesday in Braga with a New Gypsy Community Protest.
Nearly 20 people spit and accused André Ventura and the party itself to be “Fascists and racists”.
These people were already by the Arc da Door Nova, in downtown Braga, even before the arrival leader arrived and exchanged provocations with the leaders and supporters of the party who were already at the place from which the marked ruined to late in the morning.
With a Gypsy community flag and another of anti-Nazi movements, they shouted accusations of racism and fascism.
“Long live the 25th of April, live the freedom”also shouted the group, affirming the Portuguese citizens.
In response, the entourage of the arrival shouted words and chants of support for the party, such as “arrives, arrives” and “Portugal is ours”while the arrival of the arrival and Portugal.
Spat
The most tense moment happened when André Ventura arrived at the scene and spit towards the arrival of the arrival leader, at a distance, hitting him.
At this time, the screams intensified aside from part and the leader of the arrival returned the accusations of racism and I told the group that you “have to work”.
André Ventura said that people in the Gypsy community “cannot walk around the country from preventing the arrival from doing political campaign” and “trying to silence, attacking and offending.”
I already told them once and again: they will not intimidate me !!!
– André Ventura (@Andrecventura)
“Protest planted”
The president of the arrival also implied that the people who do these protests are “planted”, for the “left parties”.
“We continue to have a set of Gypsies that are, in some cases the same, who walk all over the country. They have to be organized. I do not know if it is the community that organizes themselves, if they are the left parties, I do not know. I know they are organized and I know they are planted“He maintained.
At the end of the ruined, André Ventura made a small intervention, asking supporters not to “let himself be intimidated” and said he was “persecuted” because he will “change the country.”
“We are not afraid”He shouted, being accompanied by the supporters who heard him.
Group sings by PS
At one point, the group shouted “PS, PS”, But some elements said to journalists who vote ad and luís Montenegro “is a great man”.
The Gypsies finally proved what they came! They are from PS, do not want to work and want subsidies and the Portuguese good to play their addictions. The breast will end! They can cry and scream, but they won’t stop us!
– Party arrives 🇵🇹 (@partidochega)
Also a man who identified himself as Beto Bethoven He said he did not want the new generations to be the target of racism in the future and considered that those who support the arrival “have fascism inside.” Accused the arrival and André Ventura of “incentive for hatred”, and warned of the possibility of a “civil war in the country”.
“We, the Gypsies, if we join all, is not a good thing”He added the musician, but stressed that they are now “in peace.”
Already on Wednesday, in one, the entourage of the arrival crossed with a small group of people of Gypsy, who also accused Ventura of being racist and asked him not to feed hatred against this community.
“They insult us and call us“ racists ”, but deep down it is only the desperation of who knows that subsidies will end and will have to get up early to go to work, like any other Portuguese!” Wrote the party at X.
They insult us and call them “racists”, but deep down it is only the desperation of who knows that subsidies will end and will have to get up early to go to work, like any other Portuguese!
– Party arrives 🇵🇹 (@partidochega)