The former president of the Government of Madeira Alberto João Jardim defended today that an agreement between the PSD and Chega in the region is not acceptable, warning that there are no “good extremisms”.
“Neither Chega is acceptable, nor the communists are acceptable. The Portuguese must not fall into deception. There are no good extremisms,” said Jardim, when asked by journalists whether an agreement between the PSD and Chega in Madeira would be acceptable. .
The historic leader of the PSD, who was speaking in Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, on the sidelines of a conference on the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April, defended that the social democrats cannot “get involved in the conversation” that “there are good extremisms” .
“What is being sold to the Portuguese is that left-wing extremism is good and right-wing extremism is bad. No. They are both bad. There are parties like the PSD that purposefully sell this song about good extremism and bad extremism. It’s I need the PSD not to get caught up in this conversation”, he stressed.
Alberto João Jardim praised the leader of the Azores executive, José Manuel Bolieiro, and confessed that he has “behaved like a political adversary