“The only blackout we’ve had, as we know so far, was the PS blackout on May 18,” he stated.
On Thursday night, at a rally in Braga, Socialist MEP Francisco Assis argued that the local elections will mark the “first major electoral blackout for Chega,” a party based on “primary populist messianism,” and considered a PS victory as the “best response” to the legislative defeat.
Today, during a street event also in Braga, the president of Chega began by saying that his role “is not to comment on what anyone says.”
“I am the leader of a party, if the secretary-general of the PS had said that, I would have an opinion. But since it’s someone, well, without any political importance, it’s just an opinion,” he stated.
Nevertheless, André Ventura ended up responding and advised political opponents to “remain calm, have faith, and be humble in waiting for the popular vote.”
“Don’t think it’s in the bag because it’s not. The Portuguese have given many examples that it is they who decide, not anyone else, much less figures who, frankly and with all due respect, have no importance,” he considered.
