Enough “making racism a topic in Portugal”. “We are giving importance to this because the actors were Brazilian”, declared – Observer
Alegações Chega, André Ventura became president of Brazilians, and reiterated that Portuguese society “is not racist”.
We are giving importance to this because Brazilian actors, but every day there are people, there are Portuguese forums, there are Brazilians inside, there are Africans inside, there are Ukrainian Indians inside, there are inside that have opportunities in their lives that are less positive, that is not necessarily racism or xenophobia defended the leader of Chega.
At a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Lisbon, Ventura was asked about the complaint by actress, model and presentation Giovanna Ewbank that her children were victims of racism in a restaurant in Costa de Caparica.
A family of Angolan tourists who were not there too have been a victim of racism by an alcoholic woman, who was detained by the authorities, but who has since been released.
What came to me in terms of information is that lady how she messed with those Brazilians, she had already messed with a number of other people before, and therefore, she didn’t have anything to do with it directly. But I know, I don’t know”, said the president of the case based on “what has circulated” and “videos on the internet” he has seen, not pointing out what the case should now be investigated by the authorities.
The president of Chega indicated that the party maintains its position that Portugal is not a racist country.
I think we shouldn’t make racism in Portugal, because I think society is not racist”, he defended, a theme that “this is not a political problem in the country”.
And he mentioned that the President of the Republic “also said it, said that Portugal is not a racist country”but that “there are sectors of society more prone to racism”.
Today we have communities around the world and Portugal that has become increasingly a very vast country as well, with Brazilian communities, now with African communities, for many years with African and Afro-descendant communities”, listed André Ventura.
The far-right deputy also thought that “he will only go to Portugal to climb the party”.
We must maintain the same firmness that we have, we are a society of equals in which we all have rights, but we all have duties too, they are Brazilians, Portuguese of origin, Gypsies, Afro-descendants and that is what we defend, equal duties for everyone,” he added.
Also referring to his intervention, two weeks ago, in the debate on the revision of foreign law — which led to a moment of Arrival at the Assembly of the Republic and the President of the Assembly of the Republic and the abandonment of the hemicycle by the deputies — André Ventura defended that “ has no time” nothing to do with xenophobia or racism, it has to do with a country that has to have control over its borders” in the face of “illegal immigration” and “the consequences that this can have, whether they are from which country before ”.