“I will fight with everything I have to take second place in the first round of the January presidential election. I will give everything I have so that in the next legislatures we will be able to send BE to the place it should be, which is behind Chega ”, said André Ventura.
Ventura also anticipated that Chega will be “the big surprise” in the 2021 municipal elections, after having forced Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to a second round in the presidential elections.
“We want the second round of the presidential elections in Portugal, to be the third political force in the next legislative elections and to be the big surprise of the local elections that we are going to celebrate next year in Portugal”, he said.
The president re-elected on September 5 also defended the proposals to change the party’s statutes to “stabilize” internal life, for example the increase of the mandates to four years instead of the current three or the creation of national and local party youth, but not elected, previously nominated by the direction and district sections.
“The party that many said should not even be legalized has now passed to the party that everyone fears, the party that everyone wants to join together to form a government”, he congratulated himself to soon promise that this political force “will never bend or sell- to the system ”.
According to Ventura, Chega was not born “to freight any party, the PSD or any other party”.
The II National Convention of Chega started today in Évora, at 11:15 am, with a delay of more than an hour, starting with a speech by the president, André Ventura.
With nearly 600 participants (including delegates, guests and observers) in the audience, Ventura received a huge ovation upon arrival, 14 days after obtaining 99.1% of the votes of around 10,000 militants, in the direct elections for the presidency of the leadership. national.
The leader of the national populist party came to the sound of an epic song by a militant made specifically for the occasion.
The event is taking place in a mega tent at Quinta Nova do Degebe – a place specialized in weddings on the outskirts of Évora – under the motto “Por Portugal, Pelos Portugueses”.
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