“The country is burning, and the PSD is having a party. Chega also holds an annual ‘reentrée’ in the Algarve, and we will cancel it to pay tribute to those affected by the fires. This is what needs to be done,” stated André Ventura to journalists during the submission of local election lists in Cadaval.
The leader of Chega announced that the tribute will take place on Thursday.
Had he been the prime minister, Luís Montenegro, Ventura “would have been with the Civil Protection, not holding the Festa do Pontal.” “The prime minister is elected to govern, not to hold parties,” he asserted.
Amid the country’s fires, while “many villages, especially now in Covilhã, find themselves without aerial support,” Ventura criticized Luís Montenegro for leading a “government disconnected from reality and the people” and stated that it is “losing control of the situation.”
André Ventura further urged local populations “abandoned” by the Government during the fires to give a “red card” to the PSD in the municipal elections on October 12 and assist Chega in increasing its voter share across the country.
