Tiago Petinga / Lusa
The president of the arrival, André Ventura, said tonight that the next authority will be a “proof of fire” and that the party has the “obligation to win” in various municipalities and parishes.
In a discourse open to the media that ended the work of the XX National Council of the arrival, in Moita, Setúbal, André Ventura stated that “The wave that swept the country In the last legislatures it has to be the wave that will sweep the country in the next autarchic ”with the“ victory of the arrival ”in several municipalities.
The arrival president insisted that his party will win legislatures in the futurebut rather will have to go through the local elections – which characterized as a “Portuguese fire test” – In which it arrives has the“ obligation to win in so many chambers and together ”, although it stresses that“ it is not the number ”of municipal victories that matters.
“When we start winning and seeing fall In the Algarve, Alentejo, Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Madeira, Azores, Bragança, Leiria, Viseu. When we started seeing ‘arrival won this camera, arrives that camera won, arrives won this board, arrives won that joint’, It will be to workto show A different thing to the country “He added.
After obtaining 1.29% of the votes in the legislatures 2019, the arrival obtained 4.16% of the vote in the municipalities 2021, with the elected 19 of the 2,064 mandates of councilor – without being able to win chamber presidents. Half of the councilors elected by the arrival in the meantime.
In 2024, after March 10 18.07% of votesthe party won in June 9.79% of votes in the elections for the European Parliament.
At the doors of the city
About what has nicknamed a “government-shadow“André Ventura said that the members of this set “They will not be all at the arrival” and that will be “the best” even if they “said badly” from the arrival or themselves.
The Leader of the arrival stated that this choice reveals the “Superiority of a Party That gets the national interest above his little party interest, ”adding that“ in the curve of history it has to be alone and only for Portugal ”.
“It’s our time. We are, as the ancients said, even at the gates of the city. They already hear the drums. Out there is a multitude of men and women together ready to enter the city at the first sign“Says Ventura.
“Do not join with violence, do not join with resentment nor with revenge. Come together because Now they no longer have anyone’s ties. They get together because they feel free for the first time, ”he added.
Ventura said the will to “triumph” It is not “no obsession” Not even a “providential design,” but the “working will of every day with a huge fury of wanting to match and enjoyed seeing the party in the near future.”
Regarding the result of the May 18 legislatures, Ventura said that “what happened in Portugal It is not comparable to any other country in Europe”And of the world, and rejected that There was no “Brasileirization” nor “Americanization” of Portuguese politics and that this would be “smoking what is happening” in the country.
“No one left home to vote on the 18th or the 28th to think about Brazil, America or Europe. The people who left home on the 18th and who gave us the result of the 28th result They said this: the Portuguese people do not need lessons No one, ”said Ventura.
“Acordou in case, will overcome in case it will transform in case The will of Europe and the world. We never need anyone. We never need anyone’s example, ”he shot.
The President of Arri also thanked the support from “European partners”No more and said it was time for the country to stop being a“ receptacle of what happened in the world ”and becomes“The Lighthouse of Europe and the World“.
