Ben Harnwell

Just a short while ago in January, they had the first round of their presidential election.

And that basically pits the left and Chega, which is the far right.

Candidate who got about 25 percent of the votes, huge showing.

Right.

And it's doing the presidential runoff is going to be on February the 8th.

Why am I talking about Portugal?

It's not like a key, essential member of the European Union, because what's happening there is absolutely fascinating.

Developments today, the centre-right, the Christian Democrats, the European People Party, right?

they've come out and said they're going to endorse the left-wing candidate so that the far-right candidate won't win, right?

So you know what?

So we've got the political spectrum, and we say all the time, basically, that the centre-right is centre-right in only its name, right?

But there are few occasions when the mask slips so badly, you really get to see the cogs in the machinery in all its gory griminess.

Let me repeat this.

In the presidential runoffs, the centre-right, the so-called centre-right, which is the political grouping of which Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Politburo is, they are so desperate to stop a group which is just to the right of them.

from taking the presidency, they're going to support the far left, right?

That is illustrative of how we have been betrayed right across continental Europe.

And I want the war on policy to hold on to that and to let that sink in.

And the reason, right,

The reason they are so opposed to Chega, the candidate Ventura, why are they so opposed to him?

What is the thing about him that drives all of these centre-right political parties crazy?