The general secretary of the PCP rejected that the Festa do Avante! be considered a festival and stated that the party doesn’t have a “closed position” on its realization, saying that “the Portuguese communists are very creative”.
In an interview with Porto Canal, wich will be released on Sunday evening (May 10), Jerónimo de Sousa was also asked about the media attention of Chega’s only deputy, warning that André Ventura assumes “a position where he reaps whenever he is or does of being a villain or playing the victim “and whoever thinks that, with” a fiery speech “, puts him in place is” deeply wrong “. The communist leader was questioned about the holding of the Avante! Party, after the Prime Minister, António Costa, in an interview with the same television on Friday, stated that this event could be held, provided that the sanitary guidelines of the Directorate-General for Health due to the pandemic, because the political activity of the parties “is not prohibited”.
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