Paulo Cunha / LUSA
António José Seguro and André Ventura
Presidential candidate showed an image that announced a landslide victory against Seguro. But we had to wait for the end.
André Ventura and António José Seguro last week inaugurated the long list of 28 debates towards the presidential elections.
Seguro said that Ventura should be in the legislative elections, not in the presidential ones: “Six months ago he was asking the Portuguese to vote for him and at this moment he has encouraged these Portuguese votes and is running for President of the Republic. Don’t you think that violates the contract of trust that the Portuguese gave him when they voted for him?”
The president of Chega reacted: “I’ll tell you why I’m in the right election. Because I’m the President who wants to throw a fist on the table, who wants to prevent chacha talk from continuing to be the conversation that leads people to the Presidency of the Republic.”
It also concerns the health pact, Bangladesh and Pakistan, minorities or even André Ventura’s doctoral thesis, published in 2013.
The morning after the debate, on Tuesday, André Ventura published this image:
What commentators/journalists should learn: that the Portuguese people no longer allow themselves to be deceived or manipulated!
— André Ventura (@AndreCVentura)
As you can read: “What commentators/journalists should learn: that The Portuguese people no longer allow themselves to be deceived or manipulated!”.
The basis of this exclamation are the percentages that appear in that Jornal de Notícias graph: to the question “who won” the debate, Andre Ventura would have gathered the preference of 83% two voters, against just 17% from António José Seguro.
As X himself denounces, that is “factually false”. The image was either manipulated or captured in the initial moments of the debate.
Because, at the end of the debate, readers gave a victory (tight) to Insurance: 51% – 49%.
“How can this type of display of a lie be allowed in this shameless way?” asked Carlos Vaz Marques.
On the same program, Ricardo Araújo Pereira responded that he is not surprised, after six years of “this type of puppet, of blatant fraud”.
But the commentator warns that there are people who think that these maneuvers are a “admirable cleverness”. Because he always claims that “what he meant was that…”.
