“Not even a call” and “fighting for pots”. Ventura is sad about Mithá Ribeiro

The leader of Chega accuses the party’s former deputy of only having left because he had not managed to get a “tacho” in his shadow government and admits to being “sad”.

After former deputy Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro abandoned Chega and, in an opinion article in Observador, accused André Ventura of being a “narcissistic predator” who “abuses power”, the party leader has already reacted.

Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro, who had been vice-president of Chega and one of the figures closest to Ventura, left the party after not being included in the recently announced “shadow government” of the political formation. This exclusion, according to internal sources, was the breaking point. In the published article, the former leader described Chega as “dysfunctional in the pathological sense of the term”, pointing out criticisms of the centralization of power in Ventura’s hands.

In response, the leader of Chega stated, on Friday, that “Politics cannot be a fight over pots and pans”, highlighting that Mithá Ribeiro’s decision demonstrates that “many politicians are only here for places”.

This Sunday, Ventura returned to the attack in a video published on Instagram, where he admitted to feeling “sadness” with the former deputy’s departure, but also “disappointment”. “It saddens me very much. In this case, perhaps it weighs on me a little more because I was the one who held Professor Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro back when many of the structures, including his district structure, did not want to renew his mandate as deputy”, he says.

The Chega leader adds that Mithá Ribeiro “didn’t even make a call” justifying his decision to leave, something he describes as “a breach of trust” and “a way of being in politics that interests no one”.

Ventura also accused the former deputy of inconsistency: “Saying that I am a demon, a narcissist, etc. just because he had no place in a shadow government. If I had appointed him to the shadow government, I was no longer a demon or a narcissist Even Chega was not a chaotic party. Then he could already be Chega’s shadow minister

For the leader of Chega, the episode reflects a personal and not a political stance, insisting that he will not allow himself to be “blurred from the objective” of the party. “This is what gives people the idea that many politicians are only here for places, pots and pans and when they don’t have any, they leave and say bad things about everyone, including those who worked with them. These are obstacles, which they won’t change anything my way of doing politics”, he concludes.