MADRID, 11 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Portuguese far-right party Chega (Basta), André Ventura, warned this Monday that his deputies will not support budgets from the conservative Democratic Alliance coalition, winner of Sunday’s elections, if there is no prior negotiation.
“If there is no negotiation it would humiliate Chega and I will vote against,” Ventura stated in an interview with the TVI network. Ventura thus refers to the possible Amending Budget that could be proposed for this same year as well as the State Budget for 2025.
Portuguese regulations allow the Portuguese president to dissolve the Parliament in the event that the budgets proposed by the Executive are not approved, which is conditional on the formation of a Government, since AD ??could come to power with the abstention committed by the Socialist Party, but not approving its own public accounts.
For Ventura, a possible Amending Budget “would be proof” of the parliamentary support of any future government. “It is belittling a million or so voters. What is the ego, obsession, arrogance or problem of reaching a convergence like in Italy?”, She has raised in reference to the far-right government in Rome.
The leader of Chega thus claims to be “willing to make concessions” and has referred, for example, to his proposal to establish life imprisonment or the idea of ??establishing a risk subsidy for the security forces.
“I have already done everything possible to explain to the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and to help us create a stable government, but I am only humiliated,” he argued.
In international politics, Ventura has clarified that they are against the war in Ukraine and against the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. “Putin is a criminal and a terrorist and we have to do everything possible to support Ukraine,” she argued.
Other far-right leaders such as the Italian Matteo Salvini have questioned support for kyiv, but Ventura has highlighted that “Salvini has welcomed more migrants from Ukraine than many countries supported by the left and the extreme left.”
