this authoritarianism and lack of transparency in the far right party chega Portugal has recently returned to the center of political debate. this Antique Vice President information Nuno Afonso He was the last person to make a harsh accusation against the party leader. André Ventura, accusing it of not respecting inner plurality and harshly persecuting dissident voices. Something that also knows Constitutional Courtforced education to draft new statutes. high power density In the Ventura figure.
Afonso, who was also Ventura’s chief of staff in the Portuguese Parliament, became the most visible face of the government. internal opposition of the party and even went so far as to raise a possible candidacy at a future congress whose date has not yet been determined. Disputes between the two members of the formation have caused the administration to grow even more in recent days. will withdraw trust Afonso will now serve as a councilor in the Sintra City Council, where he will serve as an independent. According to Ventura, old number two of the party, vote against the processing of budgets in the hands of the municipality Socialist Party. Afonso argues that he has never been ordered to do so and that the aim of his party was to “harm his image” and “separate” him from the formation.
false laws
Confrontation comes a few weeks after the event. Constitutional Court decisionthat the judges expressed their concerns about the “restriction” fundamental rights of activists”. The Statute provides for the suspension or immediate suspension of any of the party members from their duties in exceptional cases of disobedience, something that the judges take into account. “A serious obstacle to internal democracy””. Ventura has already called National Council New rules will be set, which should be approved early next week, but the party’s image has been questioned.
The sentence proved that many militants were right. recently left the ranks Because of the disputes with the address. it was at the end of august Gabriel Mitha RibeiroAnother heavyweight who decided to step down from the post of vice president after leaving coordinating the party’s Labor Cabinet, which fell into the hands of Ventura. At that time, Afonso said that Chega had “a one-man organization and an orphan of serious leadership”, in statements collected by the ‘Jornal de Notícias’.
municipal route
In addition to the criticisms from former senior party officials, some councilors elected in the September 2021 municipal elections are also added. 19 candidates selected for Chega in these elections, six left the party only one year later. One of them, Marcio SouzaHe explains to El Periódico de Catalunya from the Prensa Ibérica group, elected in 1999 at the Sesimbra City Council in the south of Lisbon, that the party’s local representatives are under pressure from the national leadership, both in their vote orientation and in the elections. selection of consultants. became chega a dictatorial political partywhere one person takes all the powers and delegates them according to their own criteria”, says Souza.
as Councilor Afonso left the party after making the municipality’s budgets, of which the mayor is part of the Portuguese Communist Party and the Greens coalition, enforceable despite the national leadership’s blocking orders. I did not accept the impositions because I was chosen to engage in politics, not to overthrow it. We wouldn’t be able to improve the lives of citizens by blocking a municipal budget,” explains Souza. The decision of the Constitutional Court was not surprising. luso
Shortly after the sentence, Afonso called for the former militants of the formation to return to Turkey. deal with current address. “They should go back and start making lists for all party organs,” he assured the weekly ‘Expresso’. But despite the resignations of senior officials and elected representatives, a significant portion of militancy continues to support VenturaHe succeeded in placing Chega as the third power in the Parliament with 12 deputies in the parliamentary elections held in January . The dispute over the leadership of the formation will probably have to wait.