“I don’t want Chega’s electorate”, guarantees Rio Rio
Rui Rio gives an exclusive interview to CNN Portugal this Tuesday, in which he clarifies that André Ventura’s party will never be an option for a coalition, refusing to be government alongside the “extreme right”
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The PSD president excludes a post-election coalition with Chega, even though it is the only way to reach a right-wing majority in the Legislative amendments of January 30th. In fact, it rejects any agreement with André Ventura’s party.
“I don’t want Chega’s electorate because Chega had only a few percent, it’s a minimal thing. In this case, what I want is to keep the PSD electorate in the PSD and not flee to the far right ”, explains Rui Rio in an exclusive interview with CNN Portugal, which will be broadcast this Tuesday, in full, at 10 pm.
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According to electoral data from the 2019 Legislatures, Chega erected 1.29% of the votes, in a total of nearly 68 thousand votes, electing a single deputy, André Ventura, to the Parliament. But the party has grown and in this year’s councils it rose to 4.16%.
Even so, the door is closed to Chega, who is not a party that pleases the PSD leader. “I have no sympathy [pelo Chega]”, begins by clarifying Rui Rio in this interview where there is a gap between the two political policies. And when André Ventura’s party is mentioned, the social-democratic president even makes a point of recalling his anti-fascist political path, a way of expressing himself. distance from the “extreme right”, despite having managed to hold back the Azorean parliament and the Regional Government of the Azores of the social democrat José Manuel Bolieiro.
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“I started on this [da política] even before the 25th of April, against the Estado Novo, which has the path it has, no one can be afraid that it will accept anything from any party, of any interest, against what are the fundamental principles of freedom, of the State. Law, solidarity, respect for minorities”, executives Rui Rio.
After António Costa and Rio, followed in profile with Catarina Martins, national coordinator of the Left Block; and Jerónimo de Sousa, general secretary of the PCP. The four are the longest serving party leaders in the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic in the last legislature, having led the “gimmick” and alternatives. The leaders of the two biggest parties both have a 40-year political career.