Ventura challenges IL for right-wing agreement, Rocha says it is impossible with Chega

In a head-to-head broadcast on RTP3, AndrVentura argued that, in the next legislative elections on May 18, what will be at stake is whether the Portuguese “return to a historic majority on the right or on the left”.

Leader of the Liberal Initiative, he mainly criticized Chega's economic policy, considering Ventura's party “statist” and “political leader”.

Rui Rocha accused André Ventura of wanting to bankrupt the country, while the leader of Chega condemns what he says are “wild privatizations” of the Liberal Initiative.

André Ventura says that he counts “having more votes than the PSD” and wants to know how the Liberal Initiative votes case in case of a majority between PSD and Chega. Rui Rocha replied: “Never, ever, at any time will IL enable a government that is part of Chega.” Ventura described the Liberal Initiative as “the PSD's wanderer” - “he's not even a crutch anymore, he's a wanderer, because the PSD is dead”