“[The candidate] submitted a request to withdraw the candidacy for the Pombal City Council. The request was filed in court today,” stated an informed source.
The second in the Chega list for the Pombal City Council, Manuel Serra, reported personal knowledge of Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro’s withdrawal and mentioned he assumed leadership of the list to maintain the candidacy.
“I am receiving the party’s support,” confirmed Manuel Serra, indicating that Chega aims “to secure a council seat.”
In addition to the City Council, Chega is also contesting in three parish assemblies in the Pombal municipality. The candidacy for the Municipal Assembly was rejected “due to a parity error,” Manuel Serra noted.
The current head of the Chega list, running as an independent, previously served as a parish president elected by the PSD and was a leader of the social-democratic municipal branch and a member of the Pombal Municipal Assembly in this term.
He ultimately resigned from the mandate and left the PSD.
Attempts to contact former deputy Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro by Lusa were unsuccessful.
On September 22, Chega’s parliamentary group announced that deputy Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro requested to resign from his mandate and would be replaced by Rui Fernandes, without disclosing the reasons for this decision.
“It is announced that the deputy elected for the Leiria district, Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro, requested, under article 7 of the Statute of Deputies, to resign from the deputy mandate, to be succeeded by Rui Fernandes,” stated the announcement.
Mithá Ribeiro was elected deputy in the XV, XVI, and XVII legislatures, always representing the Leiria district, and was re-elected as secretary of the Assembly of the Republic’s board in June, following the early legislative elections.
In April, the Parliamentary Committee on Transparency concluded that Mithá Ribeiro violated the Code of Conduct for Deputies by objectively disrespecting socialist deputy Isabel Moreira in a text he published on social media.
This conclusion was part of an inquiry report prepared by PSD deputy António Rodrigues and only received a negative vote from Chega.
In February, Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro published an article on social media against socialist Isabel Moreira, titled “Death Walks Among the Living,” in opposition to the legalization of euthanasia, abortion, and gender change surgeries.
Following this article’s publication, Isabel Moreira, a constitutionalist and member of the PS National Secretariat, lodged a complaint against the deputy.
The conclusions approved from this inquiry process indicate that Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro’s use of expressions like “… the disaster with which she contaminates everything around her with her depressive existence that glorifies death” or “she was even born to propagate the motto of her diabolical existence,” consistently referring to “socialist Isabel Moreira,” and her characterization as “feminazi Isabel Moreira,” are objectively disrespectful expressions.
“For this reason, it is concluded that deputy Gabriel Mithá Ribeiro did not uphold the duty of respect for deputy Isabel Moreira in the publication under investigation, a duty imposed by article 5 of the Code of Conduct for Deputies to the Assembly of the Republic, concerning the duties of civility and institutional loyalty,” reads the document approved by the Commission.
