Manifestation of Ventura with Mário Machado and without policemen

Deputy André Ventura waits between “1000 and 1500” protesters and fears that far-left groups will boycott the event.

André Ventura is convinced that “ordinary Portuguese people will take to the streets to claim that they are not racist”, during this afternoon’s demonstration, between Marquês de Pombal and Terreiro do Paço, in Lisbon. Even if there is no police presence, nor the collaboration of the CDS / PP and the PSD, who demarcated themselves from the initiative. “The Right is afraid to go out on the street. Tomorrow [hoje], it was time to make a Right Front, because we all agree that there is no structural racism in Portugal “, says the leader of Chega, who expects the presence of” 1000 to 1500 “protesters to JN.

One of them will be Mário Machado, mentor of several extreme right organizations. On social media, the man sentenced to ten years in prison for, among other crimes, racial discrimination, aggravated coercion, possession of an illegal weapon, damage and offense to physical integrity, called for “nationalists and some with more” radical “tendencies “who participate in the demonstration did not perform” salutations with their arms up, nor did they flaunt “posters or symbols that go beyond the Right that Chega defends”. “It would be counterproductive and ignoble”, he justified.

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