Chega’s leader announced on Monday that the party is promoting the creation of a new “union federation”which hopes to be constituted in December, aimed at workers who do not see themselves in leftist parties.
The intention of the party led by André Ventura to consider a trade union movement had already been anticipated by the Observer last August. At the time, Diogo Pacheco Amorim, Chega’s ideologue and deputy, explained that Chega was considering founding his own “union movement” to “guarantee a party position among the various professional classes.”
The feeling that Chega wanted to occupy a space in the streets that, by tradition, has belonged to the left was always an objective of André Ventura (“The streets have been right-wing since the appearance of Chega”), but, until then, this The work had been done through association with inorganic social movements and placing militants in prominent positions in the unions.
Basta wants to take care of the struggle in the streets and considers the union movement to replace the left
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Source: Observadora
