“There are many areas of the country where things are very closely contested and, honestly, in much of the country where Chega is competing, in some cases with the PS, for the municipal councils, I want to appeal to the people on the right to vote for Chega,” he stated.
“People on the right, center-right, vote, vote, vote. Do not waste votes on the PSD, vote for Chega,” he emphasized.
Kicking off a street campaign in Vila Verde (district of Braga), the Chega leader considered that “voting for the PSD is useless in these elections, it will not bring any change, especially in the center and south of the country.”
“I would like the right to concentrate their votes on Chega so we can have a victory, not of the PS, but of the right and Chega on Sunday. It’s very important,” he argued, appealing to traditional PSD voters to change their choice.
“I know that there are many people, especially in the center and here in the north of the country, who have been accustomed to voting, mainly on the right, for the PSD, out of habit, but now things have changed. Only Chega can remove the socialists from local power in many regions. Only Chega can overturn the corruption of the socialists in municipal councils,” he advocated.
Hours before the campaign for Sunday’s local elections ends, André Ventura noted that this “is not a desperate plea, but a heartfelt appeal.”
“Vote for Chega, Chega is the only one capable of changing the country. Voting for the PS or the PSD is the same thing, voting for Chega will be really different,” he argued.
“It is important that in the north we defeat the PSD, and in the south, we defeat the PS,” Ventura remarked, urging voters who supported Chega in the legislative elections to do so again in Sunday’s local elections.
The Chega leader reiterated that the objective is to win Sunday’s elections, “to have more votes,” and elect various municipal council leaders, to “conquer the local dominance of the country.”
Ventura stressed that “votes should not be lost on parties that do not have that expression, nor the capacity to win,” reiterating that “there are three parties capable of winning the municipal elections, the PSD, the PS, and Chega.”
Specifically regarding the Algarve, one of the districts Chega won in the last legislative elections, André Ventura indicated his desire to take control of “practically all” councils in that region and, regarding the Braga district, he expects “a great result.”
As for the rest of the country, the president of Chega did not specify a number but stated that the objective is to win the municipalities where the party was the most voted in May.
“The opposition leader always fights to win,” he emphasized.
The Chega leader also criticized the PSD’s decision to end their campaign in Espinho, the hometown of the prime minister.
“How much more ingrained in the system is this? How opportunistic, how low is this?” he said.
André Ventura accompanied the candidate for the presidency of the Vila Verde Municipal Council and deputy, Filipe Melo, in a street campaign in the center of the town.
Throughout the campaign, the Chega leader was approached during the journey by dozens of people wanting to greet him, take a photo, or ask for an autograph, some in high spirits, many of whom were young people.
At a certain point, André Ventura toasted “to victory” with a beer offered to him along the way.
