&NewLine;<p>The Chega party is now considered the country's third largest political force, with 13% of voting intentions in the latest polls. <a href="https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/fin-golden-visa-portugal-2023/" data-type="post" data-id="9299">European Parliament</a>The party could win three or four seats and join the ranks of the ID political group if the current trend continues&period; </p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Chega becomes Portugal's third political force</h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Portugal's far-right Chega&ThinSpace; party is set to enter the European Parliament next year with 13&comma;2 &percnt; of the votes nationally&comma; but a recent report has highlighted the party's rhetoric&comma; fueled by a discourse<strong> anti-LGBTQIA&more;&comma; anti-immigration&comma; anti-women and conspiracy&period;</strong></p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In Portugal&comma; the party&comma; which currently has 12 seats in parliament&comma; is now considered the country's third political force&comma; with 13&comma;2 &percnt; of voting intentions in the latest polls&period; Although none of its members currently sit in the European Parliament&comma; the party could gain three to four seats and join the ranks of the ID political group if the current trend were to continue&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In the same vein as neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups&comma; Chega's ideology is described as anti-immigrant&comma; anti-women&comma; anti-LGBTQIA&plus;&comma; anti-Roma&comma; anti-Muslim and conspiratorial&comma; according to a report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism &lpar;<a href="https://globalextremism.org/post/portugal-release/">Global Project against Hate and Extremism&comma; GPAHE</a>&rpar;&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The organization's series of reports&comma; sifting through Australia&comma; Ireland&comma; France and Bulgaria&comma; sheds light on organized "&ThinSpace;hate&ThinSpace;" groups&comma; whose "&ThinSpace;beliefs and activities demean&comma; harass and incite violence against people on the basis of their identity traits&ThinSpace;"&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As far as the Roma community is concerned, the president of Chega&comma; <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/andr%c3%a9_ventura" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">André Ventura</a>&comma; accused the Roma of being "&ThinSpace;criminals&ThinSpace;"&comma; abusing welfare benefits and constituting a "&ThinSpace;serious public safety problem&ThinSpace;"&period; Following the Covid-19 pandemic&comma; M&period; Ventura affirmed the need to implement a "&ThinSpace;specific containment plan for the gypsy community&ThinSpace;"&comma; the report also&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>M&period; Ventura also believes that "&ThinSpace;increasing illegal immigration is destroying Europe&ThinSpace;" and calls for "&ThinSpace;the drastic reduction of the Islamic presence in the European Union&ThinSpace;"&period; In the same vein&comma; Chega's speech includes elements of the theory of "&ThinSpace;Grand Remplacement&ThinSpace;"&comma; a conspiracy theory based on the belief in the threat of a "&ThinSpace;demographic substitution&ThinSpace;" of European populations by non-European populations&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Campaigning against "&ThinSpace;gender ideology&ThinSpace;" LGBTQIA rights&more;&comma; the party believes in the existence of a "&ThinSpace;cultural Marxist&ThinSpace;"&comma; conspiracy, arguing that pro-LGBTQIA culture&more; is being imposed on Portuguese society "&ThinSpace;to change society and destroy European Civilization&ThinSpace;"&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Founded in 2019&comma; Chega represents the first significant far-right political force in Portugal since the end of the fascist dictatorship in 1974&period; The party's statutes have been rejected by the country's Constitutional Court on several occasions for concentrating excessive power in the hands of the "&ThinSpace;charismatic&ThinSpace;" M&period; Ventura&period;</p>&NewLine;
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