Mozambique: Mondlane reaches agreement with Portuguese right-wing party – AIM report

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Mozambique: Mondlane reaches agreement with Portuguese right-wing party – AIM report

11:35 CAT | 15 Jul 2025

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The National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (Anamalala), led by former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, has reached an agreement with the Portuguese conservative and right-wing party Chega, in which the two parties, according to Mondlane “expressed an openness for cooperation at various levels”.

On his Facebook page, Mondlane wrote that he and Chega leader Andre Ventura, meeting in Lisbon, “sat down to bring their positions closer together”. Mondlane said that the two delegations had spoken at length and agreed “to defend the sense of belonging of each citizen to his motherland, as well as the development of the identity of each people”.

They also discussed immigration. Chega, in line with the far right across Europe, is known to be extremely hostile to immigrant communities. But Ventura seems prepared to make an exception in the case of Mozambique.

According to Mondlane, the Chega delegation said “the Mozambican community in Portugal is very well inserted”. Mondlane regarded this as “a clear sign that strengthening cooperation between the two countries is an intelligent attitude”.

“It is not efficient for each actor to operate alone”, said Mondlane. “Instead, they should always seek synergies”,

Chega’s politics are so toxic that Portugal’s mainstream right-wing parties, in the ruling Democratic Alliance coalition, will have nothing to do with Ventura, who set up Chega in 2019.

Chega soared to third position in the 2024 parliamentary elections, with over 18 per cent of the vote and 50 seats. This compares with 28.8 per cent for the victorious Democratic Alliance, and 28 per cent for the runner-up, the Socialist Party.

Ventura’s racism was on display in 2020 when he called for a parliamentarian born in Guinea-Bissau, Joacine Moreira, “be returned to her country of origin”. In November 2020 he was fined over 400 euros for discrimination against Romani communities. A month later he was fined 3,370 euro for harassment of Romanis.

Internationally, Ventura has made no secret of his support for far right US President Donald Trump, and for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Chega has claimed that what it calls an “Islamic wave” poses a danger to Europe, and has called for “a drastic reduction of the Islamic presence in the European Union”.

In 2021, Chega adopted as its slogan “God, country, family and work” – obviously derived from the “God, country and family” slogan used by the fascist dictatorship overthrown on 25 April 1974.

Source: AIM