The national leadership of Chega on Tuesday accused the government of ordering and encouraging a “supposed European report” on the extreme right in an attempt to outlaw the party led by André Ventura.
“Chega denounces and regrets the disclosure of an alleged European report in which Chega is given serious responsibility for the alleged rise and normalization of the extreme right in Portugal. We say alleged because, in fact, if we analyze more closely, the part of the report to that we are referring to is the authorship of two Portuguese journalists, whose opinions about Chega were, by the way, already known “, reads a statement.
According to the leaders of the extreme right-wing parliamentary party, the document “is not an objective piece of analysis or contribution to reflection, it is yet another miserable contribution to the process of illegalizing Chega, which is at the moment the dream of the Portuguese left and of some confirmed right “.
“It is unfortunate that the subjective and biased analysis that is carried out and presented as if an investigation or data collection were to be dealt with. Chega’s association with the regime prior to April 25, 1974, the categorization of ‘Zero Movement’ as extremely populist right or the accountability of the election of the deputy of Chega for the increasingly aggressive environment in the Portuguese public space shows well that we are facing a report ordered and encouraged by the Portuguese Government “, lament the leaders of the nationalist party.
The report on right-wing extremism in Europe, released today, marks the political “normalization” of Chega in 2020 and warns of the “possibility of radicalizing the forms of protest by the Portuguese extreme right”.
“The infiltration of the extreme right in protests for better living conditions, as is the case of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, should continue. And in this case, with the worsening of the social and economic crisis, it cannot exclude the possibility of radicalization in the forms of protest of the Portuguese extreme right, “warns the report” State of hate – right-wing extremism in Europe “.
The Portuguese part of this report, which portrays the situation in several European Union countries, but also in Eastern Europe, is by two journalists dedicated to the study of the extreme right, Ricardo Cabral Fernandes and Filipe Teles, who warn of the risk that the extreme right will try to “take advantage of the dissatisfaction, frustration and resentment of the socio-economic crisis caused by measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic”.
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