“It is also quite humorous how the ‘government’ itself seems almost like a sketch from Gato Fedorento. I don’t think it’s a shadow government with any realistic conditions to accomplish anything,” said the president of IL during a visit to Expoval – Mostra do concelho de Valongo (Porto district), at Parque Urbano de Ermesinde.
Mariana Leitão further noted that it is “quite peculiar how a candidate for President of the Republic now presents a shadow government that implies being a potential candidate for prime minister, so there is something here that doesn’t quite add up.”
“I can’t take it too seriously (…). What game is André Ventura playing? That’s what also seems unclear. For now, nothing changes. He presents a Government with exactly the same structure as the governments we’ve always had, with the same ministries, with the same logic,” pointed out the liberal leader.
The deputy also observed that “an anti-system candidate, who claims to be anti-system and from an anti-system party, is essentially following the system at every opportunity because he very much wants to be part of the system and, poor thing, feels that they don’t let him in.”
The president of Chega, André Ventura, announced on Friday for the party’s “shadow government” the former minister Rui Gomes da Silva in charge of Justice and the professor Rui Teixeira Santos with Economy and Finances.
In Évora, at the opening of the Chega Youth Academy, André Ventura further revealed that the MEP Tiago Moreira de Sá will handle Foreign Affairs, while the deputy Nuno Simões de Melo will be in charge of Defense.
Miguel Corte-Real, the party’s candidate for the Porto City Council in the local elections on October 12, will work in the area of state reform for the shadow government, announced André Ventura, promising to announce all names in the coming days.
These names join those announced by André Ventura in an interview with Now channel on Thursday night, namely the university professor Teresa Nogueira Pinto, responsible for Culture and Related Areas, and the former chairman of the Order of Veterinarians Jorge Cid, who will handle Agriculture.
On Thursday night, the president of Chega also announced that doctor Horácio Costa will be ‘minister’ of Health, Fernando Silva, a member of the National Elections Commission, will assume Internal Administration, and university professor Alexandre Franco de Sá will be responsible for the Teaching portfolio.
