The leader of Chega confirmed that it was the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, who revealed to him that his predecessor, António Costa, wanted to promote the recent wave of Indian immigration to Portugal. For André Ventura, the idea was “strategic and political”.
André Ventura blames António Costa for immigration in Portugal. At a dinner with young people, in Porto, the leader of Chega revealed that Luís Montenegro told him that the socialist not only wanted to increase the number of people coming to Portugal, but, in particular, those coming from Indostan.
“I will never forget what this Prime Minister said, on one of the days we spoke: it was that António Costa didn’t just want more immigration, he wanted this immigration that we are having, especially from the Indostan area. Knowing the problems they brought, knowing that in many cases they were people with nothing to do with our culture. But, worse, they didn’t come here to benefit our culture, they came to transform our culture”, said the leader of Chega at a dinner with young people, in Porto.
Considering that this was “strategic and political”António Ventura said that, for the former PS prime minister, “the fewer or the more people who come and think they have some right over whoever is there, that’s votes for the left and that’s votes for the Socialist Party”.
Therefore, he highlighted, the elements of his candidacy present at the dinner, together with the young people, are “resistance warriors” of Portuguese culture. Quoting the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, André Ventura continued his speech to say that “whoever does not feel comfortable next to a crucifix is in the wrong country” and that “it is not the country where they need to be”.
In an intervention in which he did not mention his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic in the elections scheduled for January 18, the also Chega’s leader assured that his fight “has nothing to do with nationalism, nor has it anything to do with supremacy of any race”.
“It has to do with defending what is the supremacy of the country and the nation, the great advantage of being Portuguese,” he said.
Affirming his conviction that History “will prove right” what he defends, André Ventura insisted, addressing young people, that there will be no future if the country continues “to have this flood”.
With Lusa
