“I hope that Chega will finally contribute its vote to ensure serious immigration regulation in Portugal,” stated António Leitão Amaro during an urgent parliamentary debate called by Chega, titled “lack of control on nationality attribution and the need to limit family reunification.”
The minister noted that the Government submitted three draft laws to the Assembly of the Republic today, to be discussed “next week.”
António Leitão Amaro remarked that “the time has come for Chega to finally contribute its vote to have at least one rule, one solution, that better controls immigration in Portugal.”
The Chega leader argued that his party “has wanted to control immigration from day one,” while the PSD “sold its soul to the PS out of fear of losing the political center” and criticized that both the recent PS governments and the PSD were “weak in terms of immigration control.”
At the start of the debate, the Chega president questioned the Government on whether it “will or will not prevent the continuation of family reunification in Portugal,” claiming that the “numbers are alarming” and “it must be stopped, no matter the cost.”
Ventura also asked the Minister of the Presidency not to bring “empty and hollow talk” to the debate and to “tell the Portuguese face to face what and how they will act.”
“Who will actually lose nationality after committing crimes on Portuguese territory? Will we or will we not end asylum subsidies for those who come here, those whose entry is denied here, and receive Social Security support for months? Will we or will we not conduct an audit of AIMA to ensure all criminal authorizations given for entry into Portugal in recent years are properly investigated?” he questioned.
“This is the challenge from Chega, this is the challenge of a nation that wants to see a problem created by the left finally resolved, but it is now up to the right to solve. The time wasn’t yesterday, it is today, the time to act is now,” said the leader of Chega.
