“It is the Kim Jong-un of Portugal.” Enough places photographs of Ventura in AR offices and provokes internal criticism – Observer
With the results of the latest legislative laws, Chega went from one to 12 deputies and the representation of offices and rooms in the Assembly of the Republic — including the room that had the right to an increase to the CDS, which had parliamentary representation. The arrival of new deputies and advisors led to remodeling and readaptation of spaces and, taking into account the photographs that the Observer had access to, there is no lack of photographs of the party leader.
José Dias, former vice-president of Chega, reacts to the images spread around the offices, saying that it is proof that it is a “personalist party in which things are concentrated on the leader”. “The powers are too concentrated in a person and this was granted to him in national congresses and councils”, he points out, noting that the president of Chega has gained more powers in recent years because militants were allowed.
The former leader even uses the example of postponing demonstrations in districts and municipalities for a period of up to one year to say that “the democracy has been delayed“.
André Ventura suspends year of preparations at Chega during
José Lourenço, former leader of the district of Porto and one of the most critical voices of André Ventura, compares André Ventura to the leader of North Korea: “It is Kim Jong Un from Portugal.” In statements to the Observer, the place, which is a “general cult of André Ventura, was not disclosed in the aforementioned images of André Ventura, saying that there is the existence of a “cult of offices, a parliamentary cult of the leader”. “All dictators use the cult of the image,” he says.
A former party leader who prefers not to be identified agrees with José Lourenço in the idea of a “cult of the self” and goes further, saying that André Ventura leads in a “cult of the self”kind of Putinism” and that Chega is “a North Korea type party”. “André Ventura is given power that makes no sense in power in 2022. The absolute of a leading party having this one, cannot reject a name or power”.
“In Portugal it doesn’t make sense for someone to depart from democracy to make a party of a single person or of the people who want“, proceed in instructions to the Observer
Parliamentary offices are not the only places where there are photographs of André Ventura. In the various party images of the party, with several images that continue to just the wall of the division and growth growth that presides over several images of a man’s headquarters, with the rise of a militant’s tendency of pains and burdens at the local national level and mainly with disaffiliations, representatives of several councilors and with some councilors. There are other parties (PSD and PS) in the practice of photographing leaders in decentralized headquarters.
André Ventura is the face of Chega and responsible for choosing who he wants ahead of each challenge. He was the one who made the lists for the deputies to the Assembly of the Republic and who has the power to decide the most important issues of Chega in his hands. The party itself surpassed him that he wanted the last Congress powers, in Viseu.
This week, it was André Ventura who got the approval of the National Council.