Chega leader Andre Ventura announced this Sunday in Loulé that he would submit a vote of confidence to the party’s competent bodies to comment on the way the training was organized.
The far-right leader said it was “obvious that there is a faction in the party” that he believes is in the minority and that challenges the current leadership.
“I intend to present the party with a vote of confidence, which should be marked as a matter of urgency, where everyone can take part and have their own position to determine if this is the path they want, the path that brought us here,” said Andre Ventura . on the sidelines of the final meeting of the Chega Summer Youth Academy.
President Chegi assured that the parliamentary group is “unified” and that everything has been done “for the party to remain united, but the group must have rules and it must have leadership,” drawing an analogy with a football team: “A football team must have a coach, otherwise there is no football team and everyone plays for himself,” he said.
“And I don’t like to pretend there’s no problem, it’s not PCP. I like to assume that there are problems,” said Andre Ventura.
Chega’s president added that “because he understands there are problems and because he understands that in a democracy it is the activists, the leaders and the participants who must choose,” party chairman Jorge Valsassina said on Saturday. , of its intention to present a vote of confidence.
“If there are those who understand, as we heard, that we can make another opposition or that there are issues that should have been on the table, but were not, if there are those who understand that the way to be in parliament was not the right one, this needs to be clarified, ”Andre Ventura insisted.
The president of the far-right party says that he is not “insured” against the “cases” of recent weeks and that “maybe this faction, like the episode that happened with Professor Gabriel Mita Ribeiro in the title role, is actually a problem.”
Chega’s deputy elected by Leiria, Gabriel Mita Ribeiro, who resigned as party vice president, guaranteed on Saturday that he would serve his term inside or outside the party and said he would start negotiations with President Chega. .
“Whatever the outcome of this scenario, I will carry out the mandate until the end of the legislature and not give up the autonomy of the work that I develop in the constituency from which I was elected, the constituency of Leiria,” said Gabriel Mita Ribeiro, at a press conference .
The Chega MP resigned as party vice-president last Monday after resigning from André Ventura’s “temporary” position of study coordinator.
Gabriel Mita Ribeiro said he would meet with the chairman of the party and enter into negotiations to “find concrete common ground.”
“For now, I’m on the condition that we start talking, negotiating as soon as possible. I gave President Andre Ventura a very clear written text explaining and substantiating my position and presenting proposals for solutions,” the deputy added, considering that his departure from the cabinet was “a clear distrust on the part of the president” in his person.
The deputy insisted that “he would keep the mandate to the end, inside or outside the party.”
For his part, Andre Ventura stressed this Sunday that he is not negotiating on the basis of the “preconditions” put forward by his former vice president and that the “talks” he has had guarantee him “that unity is beyond doubt, is open to conversation.
“After the approval of these changes [uma reestruturação da estrutura do Chega que está em curso] new managers will be appointed, and one of them could be Mita Ribeiro, like any other leader. We cannot give preconditions,” leader Chegi assured.
In the closing speech of the Cheg Youth Summer Academy, Andre Ventura stated that perhaps these problems are due to the fact that the party has grown “too fast”, and it is normal that there are “those who understand that the path must be grown differently”.
Chega youth Andre Ventura urged not to allow themselves to be “bourgeois” and to continue to fight against the way the PS runs the country.
He also had harsh words against the SDP and its leader, whom he criticized for not opposing the socialist executive, and against the Liberal Initiative, which he considered “disappeared” for several months.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
