Chega demanded this Friday the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Maria do Céu Antunes, “publicly withdraw through a formal apology” to the Confederation of Farmers of Portugal (CAP) and “all national farmers.”
In a statement sent to the press, the party led by André Ventura adds that “in the absence of this public retraction, the Chega party will be forced to fulfill its duty to ask the Prime Minister to dismiss the Minister of Agriculture and Food.” Maria do Céu Antunes”.
At stake are the minister’s statements on Wednesday in Portimão. Urged by journalists to respond to the criticism leveled at the tutelage of the general secretary of the Confederação dos Agricultores de Portugal (CAP), who said that the government’s response to mitigate the impact of the drought was “non-existent” in the animal production and feeding sector, the minister returned the question.
It is better to ask why during the electoral campaign the PAC itself advised voters not to vote for the Socialist Party”, he replied.
For Chega, the minister’s statements “clearly represent an act of pure political revenge towards the representatives of the peasants, only because they freely exercised their right, during the electoral campaign, to publicly” reject the vote in all the parties that they intended to form. a coalition with the PAN or with all the anti-agricultural and anti-rural parties in the world”.
In the party’s opinion, these statements by the CAP “even express a healthy independence from all political parties, specifically those that could not clearly indicate that they would not form coalitions with the PAN, including the PS, which was already the ruling party.” .
the party considers “It is indescribable that a Minister of the Nation harasses the representatives of the peasants like thisjust to avenge the lack of electoral support for more than six months.”
This attitude of revenge so prolonged in time still shows an eclipse of all magnanimity and reveals both dangerous villainy and ignominy. With this behavior, the Minister of Agriculture and Food has not only reached the PAC, but also sanctions and sanctions all farmers in Portugal, who have already been the object of their ineffective government action since 2019”, they criticize.
The Confederation of Farmers of Portugal (CAP) described this Thursday as “puzzling” the statements of the Minister of Agriculture, who defended the lack of explanation, and guaranteed not to give in to political “bullying”.
The PAC does not give in to the “political bullying” of the Minister of Agriculture. IL wants clarification, CDS asks for resignation and PSD speaks of “authoritarianism”
Source: Observadora
