Rarely has there been as much unanimity in Parliament as this Wednesday, in the debate on the Chega ao Governo motion of censure. But the most evident consensus was not in the attack on Costa: the parties from left to right united, but against Chega, and preferred to dedicate the beginning of almost all the interventions to criticizing the (lack of) relevance of the motion, making accusations to the party (from treating Parliament like “a child playing with a console” to wanting to inaugurate the modality of “parliamentary bullfight”).
The criticism would be expected, above all, from the Government -which opened the debate accusing Chega of just wanting to ‘make noise’, in the words of António Costa, with an inconsequential motion, since the lead was defined even before the debate began , or the majority of the deputies did not have the PS; and that ended up accusing Chega of “talking, talking, but not presenting a small proposal”. The slogan was set: Chega would be portrayed as a populist party, without proposals or solutions, and the government – despite being under fire for numerous controversies in just three months of mandate – would reduce the attacks to mere criticism without consequences.
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Source: Observadora
