“I am running for president of Chega with an ambitious and difficult, but clear objective: to win the 2024 legislative elections”, stated André Ventura at the party headquarters in Lisbon, considering that the work he started in 2019 “has not yet been completed ”.

André Ventura considered that winning the legislative elections in March will be the way to “create, alternatively, a right-wing majority in the parliamentary spectrum over the next few years”.

The party leader considered that it will also have an “internal ambition of a strictly political nature”, namely through the implementation of the party across the national territory in municipal assemblies, city councils and parish councils in the local authorities of 2025.

Likewise, he highlighted that he intends to bring more young people to the party – “not only to the party bodies, but also to the national political establishment”.

The VI Chega Convention will take place on the 12th, 13th and 14th of January in Viana do Castelo and André Ventura hopes to present “an ambitious and complete program” and that it will be “an alternative to the PS and PSD bipolarisation”.

In this sense, he argued that the party will not be able to criticize voters for choosing them if they do not present a “suitable alternative”.

“We cannot criticise the Portuguese for choosing them if we are not able to give them a suitable alternative, with quality, credibility and prestige, which is important in great and decisive moments in history”, he stated.