Portugal

POLITICAL PARTY

Chega!
in parliamentary seats
Portugal
In the May 2025 snap elections, Chega! won 60 of the 230 Parliamentary seats, finishing second and becoming Portugal's main opposition party. In the 2024 elections, Chega! came in third and won 50 seats.
In 2024, Chega! won 2 of Portugal's 21 European Parliament seats and joined the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group.
March 6, 2025
"We will denounce the growing illegal immigration that is destroying this Europe."
Party founder and president (2019–present), leader of the Opposition in the Assembly of the Republic (2025–present)
André Ventura

MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY MEMBER

André Ventura
André Ventura
"We will denounce the growing illegal immigration that is destroying this Europe."
29 January 2023
Vox España, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

PAGE CITATIONS:

Joseph Wilson and Helena Alves, "Portugal’s Chega party becomes the main opposition and joins Europe’s far-right surge," AP, May 28, 2025, apnews.com/article/portugal-politics-chega-far-right-elections-1681e21359a16ea4cd4c38efeeeada0e.

"Global Results: National and Foreign Territory," Ministério da Administração Interna, Accessed June 11, 2025, www.eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/legislativas2024/resultados/globais.

European Parliament, "Results by national party – 2024-2029: Portugal – Official results," July 16, 2024, results.elections.europa.eu/en/national-results/portugal/2024-2029/.

QUOTE CITATION:

André Ventura quoted in Rafaela Laja, "'Good Portuguese people', 'LGBT lines plus something else' and 'subsidy dependents'. André Ventura recovers Chega's oldest banners," CNN Portugal, January 29, 2023, cnnportugal.iol.pt/chega/andre-ventura/portugueses-de-bem-linhas-lgbt-mais-qualquer-coisa-e-subsidiodependentes-andre-ventura-recupera-a-antigas-bandeiras-do-chega/20230129/63d6b0b00cf2cf9224f69132, via Google Translate.

TO CITE:

"Chega!," Great Replacement Parties, ChainofIdeasBook.com, [access date], www.chainofideasbook.com/country/PT.