Gregório Teixeira, a member of Chega since July 2019, the year the party was founded, has submitted a request to the Attorney General’s Office and the public prosecutor at the Constitutional Court.
The request calls for the “opening of a criminal inquiry to ascertain the facts reported and the criminal responsibilities of the national leaders of the Chega party who remain in office after being declared unlawful by the Constitutional Court.”
Teixeira also requests “the adoption of appropriate coercive measures,” such as “the immediate notification of leaders to cease the illegitimate exercise of functions,” “the suspension of access to public resources and bank accounts of the party until the situation is regularized,” among other measures to ensure “compliance with the Constitutional Court’s decisions.”
The Chega member recalls that the Constitutional Court invalidated the elections of the party’s national bodies held at the last two conventions in 2023 and 2024, arguing that this decision “implies that the current national leaders do not have the legal legitimacy to exercise the functions they hold, thereby usurping positions and making decisions without legal validity.”
Remaining in office constitutes a “direct violation of a Constitutional Court decision, which may constitute the crime of qualified disobedience and usurpation of functions,” as well as “qualified fraud by possibly obtaining public support and subsidies based on an illegitimate representation of the party,” he adds.
“Under the direction of these illegitimate bodies, the party participated in the 2025 legislative, regional, and municipal elections, presented electoral lists drawn up by bodies lacking legitimacy, and received public funding from these acts, which may constitute electoral fraud and the misappropriation of public resources,” the letter states.
The member further states that the national leaders of Chega, by remaining in office, “undermine democratic legality, the rule of law, and citizens’ confidence in political institutions.”
In statements to Lusa, Gregório Teixeira distanced himself from the complaint filed by lawyer António Garcia Pereira for the dissolution of Chega.
“I am not asking for the dissolution of the party, what I am asking for is the replacement of the members of the national bodies” in a new congress, he said, arguing that “accountability must be established because the party has not respected the Constitutional Court’s decisions.”
The member also stated that “what is illegal are the bodies, not the party.”
Gregório Teixeira further claimed that dissolution requests “are not justified” and argued that, if such action were taken, it would only strengthen André Ventura.
“If Chega were illegalized, I think it would provoke even more reaction for Chega, and the next day, Ventura would create another party and instead of having 60 deputies, he would have 100,” he said.
