“Of all the presidents we’ve had, I believe Ramalho Eanes was the one who best represented, with authority and sobriety, the model of a President,” he stated.
In an interview conducted as part of the presidential elections set for January 18, the candidate for President of the Republic highlighted Italy’s Prime Minister on an international level.
“Giorgia Meloni has managed to combine the defense of the values of our Christian heritage, the defense of security values, a secure Europe with controlled immigration, with some boldness in terms of fighting the system. She is not a model ruler, but she is someone in whom I see qualities,” he remarked.
André Ventura argued that “today there are bad leaders in Europe,” which “is so degraded, not only by the rise of socialism and social democracies in the post-World War II era but also by the corruption that has caused degradation in the systems.”
“I think we need a President of the Republic capable of uniting, but I won’t say the same as all my adversaries, I won’t be the president of easy union, of the right and cheap word, comfortable at all times. We cannot cover up divisions, polarization, problems with empty talk, saying we all have to come together, we all have to talk […]. This is 50 years of talk that led to nothing; we need to have a President capable of addressing the problems,” he emphasized.
Ventura also used this point to criticize Gouveia e Melo, his opponent in the race for the presidency.
“What I would never say, neither here nor anywhere else, unless I were crazy, is that Mário Soares is my model of president, that’s something I would never say, and I respect those who think it,” he stated, considering it “strange” and “a little incomprehensible” that the admiral, who even started a campaign saying he was approaching or had similarities with Chega’s positions on immigration, justice, economic model, etc., ends up saying that his model of president is Mário Soares.”
“This was a leap from one side to the other,” he considered.
