The deputy and head of the party’s list for Lisbon spoke at the conclusion of Livre’s XV Congress, which approved the electoral program for the legislative elections on May 18, in a session that included interventions from eight candidates for the Assembly of the Republic.
“If on election day, the news is that Livre is the fastest-growing party and the far-right is the one declining the most, it will be the best news we can give to our country,” he stated.
In a speech where he once again accused Prime Minister Luís Montenegro of “a profound lack of ethics,” the Livre leader also criticized IL and its program.
“We are then between montenegrismo on one side and motosserrismo on the other; there is an alliance between montenegrismo and motosserrismo,” he said, referencing IL’s use of paper chainsaws at its last convention as a sign of support for Argentine Javier Milei’s policies.
Tavares also warned of the dangers of “a third ‘M’, an ‘M’ of fear, which is also an ‘M’ of malice,” referring to Chega, considering that its rhetoric in parliament and on social networks “must be exhausting.”
“Is it not possible to understand that loving our country must involve loving the people who live in it?” he questioned.
Without directly mentioning the PS, Rui Tavares appealed to the entire left, expressing a desire to see “more seats in the Assembly of the Republic” for these deputies.
“What we need to do is win over the votes of a sociological majority on the left that leaned to the other side, but they are not lost because we will recover them by talking more about freedom,” he argued.
