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Image of André Ventura in Futurália
Juventude do Chega is at the education and professional training fair. The message now appears in a more discreet way.
O stand and Chega Youth caused controversy in Lisbon Futuralia, an education and training fair.
In addition to images of weapons around André Ventura or a map of Portugal with the percentage of births to children of immigrants, there were also leaflets reading messages: “This really isn’t Bangladesh (but it feels like it)” or “Smile, we’re being replaced.”
Two weeks later, Juventude do Chega is at another event linked to education, employment and professional training: the Qualification.
Organization of the event in Matosinhos did not allow the distribution of leaflets controversial.
Sara Silva, a member of Juventude do Chega, says: “On the first day, they told us that we couldn’t give out these information leaflets because they said ‘this isn’t Bangladesh, but it looks like it’”.
Therefore, the option was to leave the message but in a discreet way: you need a cell phone to read a message. QR code: “The QR Code gives access to a page that talks about the Bangladeshi phrase” – and the phrase is “This isn’t really Bangladesh”like Juventude do Chega Já .
The Qualifica organization only talked to the young people from Chega about “the design [do stand]they didn’t talk about the QR Code.” They just said that “we couldn’t distribute the leaflets”.
Although, admits Sara Silva, Chega’s youth have not told the Qualifica organization what appears when you scan the QR code.
“They were checking this. In fact, they were the ones who put this together, so they were checking all this and they didn’t say anything about it. They said more about the material”, adds Sara.
