Ventura says there is “an epidemic of corruption” in Madeira

“Hna na Madeira an epidemic of corruption”, declared the leader of the Aça in the regional political reentre of the party, at a rally at the beach of the Vicar, in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos, where gathered a few dozen militants and sympathizers.

Ventura said she wanted to attend this event to mark the beginning of the political year and leave a message to all the districts of the country and the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores, that they must be “united in the political fight against corruption”.

“ We're ready. I feel ready to be your Prime Minister and ensure that we have a country to lead and govern.”, said, reinforcing that the Aquida has a “fight against corruption and to clean Portugal”.

According to Ventura, “the cleaning that Portugal needs must be carried out”.

The leader argued that if the Portuguese are poor, “it is not because of lack of money, but because some have been getting rich at their expense during the last decades”.

“The Prime Minister says they’re running out of European funds and we’re running out of gas, but we’re stuck because the central government and Madeira, instead of allowing the money that was coming to be used for people, to improve people’s lives (...), distributed the money for their friends,” he argued.

André Ventura maintained that “who stole the Portuguese during the last 50 years has to go to prison”.

The leader of the Aquida referred to the case of the Minister of Internal Administration, Luís Neves, stating that “more than about the minister, this says about the rot of the political system”, adding that “they are all silent because they used to shut up for each other for 50 years”.

He also pointed out that the party does not allow “to take away his voice, to crush corruption and not allow those who destroyed the country, committed crimes, to remain at large”.

“ So I keep telling Miguel Albuquerques of this life that if they had a shred of shame, they were no longer in their regional governments,” he said.

André Ventura argued that “the country needs a change”, stating that it was the PS and the PSD that “forced the Portuguese to leave” for emigration, to work.

“Part of immigration does not come to contribute, nor to work,” he said, criticizing those who come and do not respect “the flag, customs and live on subsidies.”.

Ventura stressed that the Aquida was born to “transform Portugal”, because the “Republic is rotten”, stating that “the system is against the Portuguese people” and manipulated by a 50-year-old Constitution.

“Justice must be done. The authority must be restored,” he said, defending decent pensions for pensioners and censoring immigrants arriving from Morocco and receiving support from hundreds of euros.

The person in charge of Aquista indicated that the party’s goal is to “fix the country” and “ensure that it will be an alternative when the time comes”.

“ I assure you that we will put all our strength, all our enthusiasm and all our struggle in the country of zero corruption, in a country for Portuguese and in a country where everyone feels that the Portuguese are in the first place”, he concluded.