“We have a problem with the Roma community in Portugal”
The leader of Chega, André Ventura, said today, in Setúbal, that the current Constitution of the Republic “is exhausted” and also that the country has “a problem with the gypsy community”.
Addressing the Chegadas parliamentarians in a previous note, at the start of the parliamentary days dedicated to the constitutionality process, which the party intends to open this September, André Ventura said he was concerned about the “waves of violence during the review of the last few days. ” in the district of Setúbal, ensuring that Chega will always be on the side of justice against violence.
“In recent days, we have witnessed unspeakable suffering: an individual murdered in a bar in Setúbal, possibly by a defender of women who were some of them persecuted and persecuted, and who was stabbed. The same was last week. And yesterday there was a shooting in the Almada Forum (in the characteristics of Almada, also in the district of Setúbal), with similar surroundings and city,” he said.
For André Ventura, “we live in a time and in a world that say the obvious time and say the evident often become a matter of crime and a matter of persecution”, or it is enough that he will not inhibit or speak out.
“Enough has no problem saying what most Portuguese people think and what most Portuguese people feel. That’s why I would like to say here, before the representatives of the communication, before our social, that we do not leave it clear what we have to say here today ”, he said.
“We have a problem with the Roma community in Portugal. We have to face. And next Wednesday I want to let you ask in parliament, once again, and consecutively, the end of impunity for the Roma community in Portugal. We will act again on Wednesday, the political day on which we have scheduled a statement to that effect, either Augusto Santos Silva [presidente da Assembleia da República] like it, whether Augusto Santos Silva doesn’t like it. What has sex in Portugal cannot continue”,
For André Ventura, this is a problem that concerns the majority of Portuguese people, but which only the Chega party has sought to express.
“As we look to the side and pretend that nothing happens, the Portuguese talk about it everywhere. And we are the ones that they give voice and they give expression, as consequences and risks. That’s what we’re going to do next Wednesday. And, I repeat, the impunity of the Roma community must end”, reiterated the leader of Chega.
Referring to the participants of the parliamentary days in Setúbal, André Ventura thanked the participation of the party’s deputies and “the courage” of several personalities from civil society, who agreed to associate themselves with the Chega initiatives.
“The Constitution of 76 is exhausted”
André Ventura defended that “the Constitution of 76 is exhausted, as a model. It is exhausted in the path to socialism that it proposed, it is exhausted in the economic model that I project, in the language of large estates and nationalization that continues to populate our Constitution. It is outdated in the health model it accepts. And we have all seen how health in Portugal needs a new model”.
For the leader, who at the opening of parliamentarians in Setúbal, some of the most controversial proposals of the party arrive, such as life imprisonment and chemical castration of pedophiles, it is necessary for all working parties, it arrives that the 1976 Constitution no longer fits with the journey the current reality in many areas, which does not respond to the country’s economic needs, environment, respect for development, health, education and justice.
“None of what we have today, which today are the founders of our regime, or most of it, is not the world that we have to make ourselves have today, which today are the founders of our post-April regime. the founders of this Constitution another to have the courage to present [Constituição] Open and innovative for a modern person who wants to be modern, open and country”, defended André Ventura.
“Our constitutional model is not a model of sustainable development, looking at an economy that has to grow. It continues to be one that looks to a country of emigration and not of constitution, like the one we have become in recent years. And it continues to be a Constitution that, naturally, because it could not do otherwise, still does not address problems that are common today, such as sustainable development, the environment, ecology and the future”, added, the leader of Chega, at the opening of the parliamentary days taking place today and Monday in the city of Setúbal.