Portuguese presidential candidate André Ventura lambasted the establishment “conservatives” who have endorsed his socialist opponent as being craven, self-interested politicians.
The leader of the anti-mass-migration Chega party, who became the first right-wing populist to reach the second round of voting in a presidential election in Portugal, cast his candidacy as the best chance to prevent the socialists from retaking power in Lisbon.
“We have already passed to the second round, we have already won all the space of the right and centre-right. Our opponent is not right-wing or centre-right, our opponent is a socialist, we have no excuses at this moment, we have to defeat socialism in Portugal,” Ventura said on Monday, according to Correio da Manhã.
“We don’t want to be a socialist country,
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