Vote for Ventura to stop Chega. “It’s very risky”

Could it be that the best way to punish the candidate who (says he) doesn’t want to be president and sabotage his party is… by voting for him in the second round on February 8th, forcing him to disappoint the country in his role as head of state?

André Ventura did everything he could not to run for head of state, and even when announcing his candidacy for Belém he admitted that . But this thesis is now “false” and whoever follows the Chega leader’s song and tries to put him in Marcelo’s place to punish him is “taking a risk”.

Commentator Miguel Morgado already warned this Monday that “the thesis that André Ventura does not want to be president is false”, that the president of Chega “realized that he can more easily govern the country from Belém than reach an absolute parliamentary majority, which is the only option he has to be prime minister — because he will never form a coalition with anyone”.

“From Belém”, predicted the social democrat, Ventura “will command Chega in Parliament, regulating the electoral calendar with the possibility of dissolving the Assembly of the Republic”.

This Sunday morning, on the radio, a listener asked “if The best way to stop André Ventura and Chega is to vote for André Venturasince, if he is elected president, his parliamentary group will lose strength with his absence, and at the same time Ventura will be forced, as president, to promote stability”.

“Not doing so”, continues the reader, “and if you choose to use ‘the atomic bomb’ [dissolução da Assembleia da República] chaos will ensue and your reputation will be seriously damaged.”

The tactic doesn’t work, believes Susana Peralta. “I think it’s very risky“, he confesses.

“I don’t know if Chega’s bench loses strength or, on the contrary, gains strength, knowing that it has a very important pawn in Belém with substantial power, not only with the ‘atomic bomb’, but with influences… [Um Presidente] She’s not exactly the Queen of England”, he compares: “we have no idea”.

“There are many abject things that André Ventura does that do not harm his reputation and do not seem to harm his electoral base”, maintains Peralta, recalling the controversial presidential campaign posters, which he removed and the fact that André Ventura did not stand out or even condemn the recent members of the neo-Nazi Group 1143.

Susana Peralta asks the question to all voters. “Do we really want to take risks?”

Regardless of everything, two things are certain. One is that André Ventura can no longer escape his destiny, whatever it may be, since the deadline to withdraw from the race to Belém ended at 6 pm on January 20th. Another is that, if you manage to beat António José Seguro and still try to escape that fate by resigning from your position, since you will not be able to run for office in the immediate elections or in those held in the following 5 years.