In Canada, a young emigrant supporter of the Chega party asked Marcelo why he doesn’t overthrow the Government. The president recalled: “The Portuguese voted for this Government a year ago.”
This Thursday in Canada, the President of the Republic confronted a Portuguese emigrant supporter of Chega who criticized him for maintaining the current Government, to whom he responded that “the Portuguese decide what they want.”
The young emigrant Dany Reis Marcelino, who identified himself as a supporter of the Chega party, approached Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa during his visit to the Missão de Santa Cruz institution, in Montreal, while he was filming the Head of State with his cell phone. “When are they going to bring down the Government?” asked Dany Marcelino, and added: “Why are they afraid that Chega will go to the Government? Is that why you don’t do anything? Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa responded that “the portuguese decide what they want for the Government and, therefore, if they decide that A is A, if it is B, it is B.”
“But you has the power to overthrow the government”You will be known by the President of the Republic who lasted the entire PS,” replied the young man. The President of the Republic then recalled that “the Portuguese voted approximately a year ago for this Government” headed by António Costa, in the early legislative elections of January 30, 2022, which the PS won by an absolute majority. “When there are elections, several, for local authorities, for European authorities, etc., for Madeira, for the Azores, will say whether they want it or not,” concluded Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Dany Marcelino, who was always filming the head of state with his cell phone and had another camera next to his body, declared at the end of this exchange of words: “I already have what I wanted“.
The young man was wearing a cap with the Portuguese flag and the phrase in English “Make Portugal great again,” an adaptation of the slogan of the former president of the United States of America, Donald Trump. Interrogated by the Lusa agency, Dany Marcelino identified himself as a supporter of Chega, but not a militant, he stated that “tired of seeing the same” in Portuguese politics and maintained that it is necessary to “put aside political correctness a little.”
The President of the Republic arrived in Montreal on Wednesday for a five-day visit to Canada, a country where, according to the 2021 census, nearly 450,000 people of Portuguese origin live.
His delegation includes the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, and the deputies João Azevedo e Castro, of the PS, Francisco Pimentel, of the PSD, Diogo Pacheco of Amorim, of Chega, Rodrigo Saraiva, parliamentary leader of the Liberal Initiative, Bruno Dias , of the PCP, and José Soeiro, of the Left Bloc.
Source: Observadora
