Climate change advocates at the UN launch new organized assault against free speech and information

by Susan Quinn

For years, climate change “deniers” have been attacked and ridiculed because we don’t believe in the “science” of the left. Yet, invented “science” isn’t science, and too many scientists have cowed to it, incentivized by money or fear of being cancelled, and have climbed on the bandwagon. More and more people, however, are realizing the scam that’s been perpetrated and are speaking out.

And now, those who defend climate change caused by humans are furious and alarmed. To discourage dissenters to the progressive narrative, the UN stepped up to stop the “disinformation”, intending to ramp up the war against climate change “deniers”:

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in Brazil in November 2025, several states endorsed the UN’s ‘Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, an initiative recognizing and trying to combat the rise in climate disinformation in media and politics.’

The UN Declaration is professedly a pledge to ‘fight false information’ about climate change.

At first glance, the Declaration seems fairly innocuous. But if you read it carefully, it clearly condemns those who don’t agree with the UN agenda, demanding censorship of the opposition, largely through the media. Here is one of the listed commitments:

Promote and support the sustainability of a diverse and resilient media ecosystem through adequate policies to enable and ensure accurate and reliable coverage, specially, within this context, on climate and environmental issues, as well as policies on advertising transparency and accountability….

It is not the place of the UN to determine a limitation on discussion of climate change, or create a media network to censor opposing viewpoints or findings. And yet they persist in pursuing this agenda and insist that everyone fall in line. Desiree Fixler, an expert in sustainable finance and investment banking and a former member of the WEF’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing turned whistleblower, identified the climate change crisis as a hoax:

Fixler, a whistleblower, used to work as a sustainability officer for Deutsche Bank, until she exposed their ‘greenwashing’ and was fired for it. Since then, she has been exposing the climate change narrative and the ‘net zero’ agenda as a scam. In a recent podcast, she explained how the UN and WEF agendas of net zero emissions and ‘stakeholder capitalism’ – a WEF concept – are means to gain control and implement socialism. ‘They’re lying to the public,’ Fixler recently said on the Winston Marshall podcast.

‘They’ve manufactured a climate crisis. There is climate change, but there is no climate crisis… asset managers, consultants, and governments… they’re all in on it because they all profit from it.’

Last year, Stanford University reported on a “rise” in new organizations pushing back against the left’s “climate change crisis” claims:

New Stanford-led research in PLOS One reveals a growing constellation of think tanks, research institutes, trade associations, foundations, and other groups actively working to oppose climate science and policy. The number of countries with at least one such ‘counter climate change organization’ has more than doubled over the past 35 years.

The researchers, in a roundabout way, recognize the aggressiveness of the left’s climate change policies in action to be a major factor for the pushback:

According to the Jan. 22 study, the two factors most closely linked to the formation of at least one counter climate change organization are the strength of a country’s commitment to protecting the natural environment and the level of formal organization in its social sector. 

(As it turns out, people are less concerned with some unobservable boogeyman than they are with their utility bills and whether or not they can afford a car.)

An especially frustrating part of this story is that climate change adherents mischaracterize the position of the “deniers” who don’t deny that the climate is changing, but that there is inadequate scientific evidence to suggest that human beings are the source of those changes. This is a critical issue: How can we consider stopping climate change when we don’t have scientific data about what causes it?

Well-known scientists are finally speaking out against the UN censorship initiative:

Prominent voices, including Bjorn Lomborg, have criticized the UN’s stance, insisting that taxpayer-funded climate policies warrant thorough scrutiny, not censorship.

Lomborg contends that the UN’s agenda is not only misguided but runs the risk of economically damaging the very countries it claims to help, as evidenced by countries like Germany facing high energy costs amid aggressive climate goals.

We must take seriously the efforts of the UN to censor scientific debate, because the consequences could be dire:

The implications of this censorship extend far beyond the realm of energy policy, as it threatens foundational principles of democracy and free expression, calling into question the very nature of scientific and academic inquiry.

The controversy and debate must continue!

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Australian man chooses assisted suicide because he cannot get disability care

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The greatest lie of the suicide lobby is that euthanasia is necessary to reduce suffering in our society. In fact, it does precisely the opposite. The second greatest lie is that a euthanasia regime is the most fundamental—and, indeed, the final—frontier in society’s journey to the embracing the full autonomy of the individual. Choosing the time and manner of one’s death, we are told, is a human right. Suicide is not a tragedy, but a choice.

Of course, total autonomy is a myth—especially in the context of suffering, illness, vulnerability, and disability. That is precisely why disability rights organizations have been at the forefront of opposing euthanasia regimes in Canada, the US, the UK and elsewhere. The issue transcends ideological lines; in 2023, the left-wing publication The Nation published a long essay titled “Can Americans Really Make a Free Choice About Assisted Dying?” concluding that the answer is no.

Some euthanasia advocates are disturbingly candid about this. After all, with increasingly scarce resources, doctors will have to make decisions: who gets suicide prevention, and who gets suicide assistance? Lord Falconer, the British peer who stated that pregnant women should be able to access assisted suicide, openly acknowledged that money and resources would likely play a role in decisions surrounding euthanasia:

The suicide lobby sells choice, but doesn’t reveal the fact that, for many, there will be no choice. We have seen a nonstop conveyor belt of such stories coming out of Canada, but the latest comes from Australia, where a 71-year-old man with a motor neuron disease (MND) is now opting for “Voluntary Assisted Dying” because he cannot get the assistance he needs through Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme. The NDIS is supposed to provide support, funding, and other resources for people with disabilities.

But Tony Lewis does not qualify, because he is 71, and the cutoff for application to the program is 65. Instead, he qualifies for My Aged Care, which grants him less than a third of the care he could receive through NDIS. Lewis cannot eat or speak on his own, and has lost most of his power of movement. He now needs round-the-clock care, which his 65-year-old wife has been providing, apart from the one home visit and four showers a week that the available funding does allow for.

Lewis says that when his wife cannot care for him, he will opt for assisted suicide; he has insisted that he does not want to become a “useless lump of meat.” His wife, Gill, thankfully strongly disagrees with that view. “I would like to think that if he had appropriate care, and there was enough of it, he would be able to cope better,” she said. “It would be a lot less stressful. I try to shield him from the back and forth arguments and pleas for funding because he does not need that. This month, I’m already over budget.”

Lewis, meanwhile, has begun the application process for assisted suicide. That application process takes, on average, between nine days and a few months; Lewis’s wife says that it takes at least six months simply to procure a new assessment for her husband’s illness, which changes often because of the pace of his disease. Other Australians who suffer from the same disease are trapped in similar circumstances, cut off from essential funding with no alternative.

This scenario plays out wherever euthanasia regimes are implemented. Some advocates, like Lord Falconer, are honest about it. The suicide lobby almost never is. They sell assisted suicide with ads emphasizing able-bodied people who wish to be in control of their own destiny. To the millions of sufferers like Tony Lewis, that is a sick joke.

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Africa Cup Riots—in Europe

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Following the dramatic Africa Cup of Nations final between Senegal and competition host Morocco, clashes broke out in several European cities late Sunday evening after the game ended with Senegal’s 1–0 victory in overtime. Unrest was reported in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, with riot police intervening in multiple locations.

In the Netherlands, the mobile unit was deployed in The Hague due to unrest following the final. Shortly after the match, around 200 people gathered at a busy intersection in the Dutch city. Heavy fireworks were thrown at police and bystanders, prompting riot police to intervene. Eight people were arrested, and calm was restored around 1:00 a.m.

Unrest was also reported in Amsterdam. Riot police were present and were pelted with fireworks and other objects. Police cleared the square shortly after 1:00 a.m., and arrests were made.

In Antwerp, nine people were detained after disturbances erupted across the city. A local bus was pelted with eggs, and youths threw stones at police officers who had been called in, according to police reports. Elsewhere in Antwerp, seven additional people were arrested for making online calls for violence.

X videos show the angry mob causing destruction in Paris as well. Following the devastating loss in the final, lots of Moroccans gathered near the Champs-Elysées hurling fireworks at cars and clashing with the police.

In Brussels, rioting followed the final, in the infamous municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. Rioters blocked roads with burning rubbish, according to footage shared on social media, with hundreds of young immigrants marching along avenues through the municipality. Chaos erupted around busy transport hubs late at night. Police deployed tear gas and water cannons to contain rioters near the Ribaucourt metro station. In Molenbeek, a moped rider was hit in the face by a firework bomb, an incident captured on footage circulating on social media. Near the Zwarte Vijvers metro station a firebomb was also set off.

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Is the French legal system out to take down both National Rally leaders?

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“I have nothing to hide in this matter, which seems to be used mainly to generate some media buzz. It’s odd, and the timing certainly raises questions,” said French National Rally leader Jordan Bardella last week.

As his longtime colleague Marine Le Pen faces an appeal trial over accusations of embezzlement of EU funds, Bardella, RN President, admitted he was under investigation as well.

Both are now at the mercy of judges ahead of presidential elections that either could win.

Le Pen’s appeal trial opened in Paris on January 13, and the stakes are high: A conviction would end her candidacy in the 2027 election.

At a press conference on January 17, kicking off the RN’s electoral campaign in Marseille, Le Pen projected confidence.

“When one files an appeal, by definition one is optimistic,” she said, standing alongside RN MP Franck Allisio, candidate for mayor of Marseille.

“I want to maintain that optimism and the conviction that the court will hear the arguments the tribunal did not hear,” she said.

On January 12, a day before Le Pen’s appeal trial opened, the head of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office Jean-François Bohnert confirmed to the media that prosecutors are examining Bardella’s expenses in the European Parliament.

The same day, Bardella questioned the timing of the announcement and defended Le Pen in the name of democracy.

“It would be deeply worrying for democracy if the justice system were to deprive the French people of a candidate in the presidential election who has already qualified twice for the second round and is now considered the undisputed favourite in the race,” he said.

The legal troubles targeting RN leadership come as public support for the party remains high.

A survey yesterday found 35 per cent of respondents satisfied with the prospect of Bardella as president, closely followed by Le Pen at 33 per cent, despite her ongoing appeal trial.

On March 31, 2025, the Paris Criminal Court found Le Pen guilty and sentenced her to four years in prison, two of which are to be served, a €100,000 fine, and five years of ineligibility with immediate effect.

Her appeal trial is scheduled to end on February 12.

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Germany: Muslims from banned mosque in Frankfurt now pray in public and block the street every week

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Inside the tent with transparent walls, around 60 people kneel on prayer rugs for yesterday’s Friday prayer. Imam Mokhber stands in front of them and preaches, his words being broadcast outside via loudspeakers. He speaks partly in German. The tent is set up on Eschborner Landstraße in the Rödelheim district of Frankfurt, on one half of the road directly in front of the Imam Ali Mosque (photo above). Opposite, on the pavement, stands a handful of protesters from the citizens’ initiative (BI), which was founded on January 1 to protest against public prayer at this location.
This is because the mosque has been closed since July 2024, a consequence of the ban on the ‘Islamic Centre Hamburg’ (IZH) by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. According to the ministry, the IZH is a direct representative of the mullah regime in Iran, propagates an Islamist and totalitarian ideology, and supports the terrorist organisation Hezbollah. The operator of the Imam Ali Mosque in Frankfurt was the ‘Centre for Islamic Culture’ (ZIK), which, according to the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, is a sub-organisation of the IZH.

But that is not the main thing that bothers the citizens’ initiative, whose members have been meeting here for a year and a half to pray for the reopening of the mosque. ‘The street is blocked, you have to take detours,’ says Patricia Siegmund, who founded the Rödelheim protest initiative. And that every Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. This ‘undermines the rule of law,’ she says. She ‘couldn’t care less’ that people pray there. ‘I’m concerned about the road.’ The worshippers have been offered another place, namely the lawn on the other side of the road. There, they wouldn’t disturb anyone.
The CDU in Rödelheim, in Hausen and in Industriehof, which supports the protests, has a slightly different focus. Its chairwoman, Claudia Wolff, was not there, but later said on the phone: ‘We are not against the people who pray there; they are exercising their right.’ But they criticise the city for allowing the traffic disruptions and for ‘allowing the extremist association to protest there at all.’ The public order office, however, points out that it is not the banned association but a private individual who registers the gatherings. ‘Therefore, the gatherings are allowed to take place weekly.’

On the social network Facebook, the Rödelheim CDU regularly posts counter-protests against the outdoor prayer site. Underneath it says: ‘Enforce the rule of law.’ Does the CDU see the rule of law threatened by those praying? The prayers are mostly in Arabic, says Wolff, and cannot be understood. But they rely on the Home Office and its assessment.
‘We are not extremists, not at all,’ says Mushin Abboud, who registered the temporary tent site. The group around him that organises the prayer protests calls itself the ‘Muslim Community Frankfurt.’ ‘We demand the reopening of the mosque,’ says Abboud. They do not want to pray on the lawn opposite, but in front of the mosque, because that is what this is all about. They would also go to the courtyard directly in front of it, but the public order office refuses to allow this.

The ZIK filed a lawsuit against the closure of the mosque in August 2024 with the Federal Administrative Court. No decision has yet been made on this, the court said on Friday in response to an enquiry. Meanwhile, the Muslim community wants to continue meeting on site until ‘the mosque reopens,’ says Abboud. And if the lawsuit is dismissed? ‘Even then.’

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‘Italian crime victims are abandoned while perpetrators are protected,’ says daughter whose parents were raped and murdered by Ivorian asylum seeker

An Italian woman whose parents were murdered in a brutal attack by an Ivorian asylum seeker a decade ago has accused the state of abandoning victims while prioritizing the rights and welfare of offenders, in an interview with Il Primato Nazionale.

Rosita Solano, whose parents Vincenzo, 68, and Mercedes, 70, were killed in their home in Palagonia, Sicily, in August 2015, said she no longer feels like an Italian citizen because of what she described as a complete lack of protection and support for victims of violent crime.

In the attack, Mamadou Kamara, an 18-year-old Ivorian asylum seeker housed at the Mineo reception center, broke into the couple’s home, beat Vincenzo Solano to death, raped Mercedes Solano, and threw her from a balcony while she was still alive. He had only been in Italy since for around two months, having arrived illegally on June 8.

Kamara later returned to the reception center, where investigators found stolen belongings from the victims’ home. His life sentence became final in July 2022.

The horrific double murder made national headlines at the time, and fuelled anti-mass immigration sentiment at the peak of the migrant crisis. Matteo Salvini, who is now Italy’s deputy prime minister, said at the time, “From what war was this guy escaping??? If he’s guilty, jail for life, with HARD LABOR!”

Speaking recently to journalist Francesca Totolo, Solano said the crime had permanently destroyed her family’s life. “After that night, our lives changed forever. We no longer live. Nothing is the same as before. We live in fear,” she said.

She described her parents as quiet, hardworking people who had integrated fully into the communities where they lived, including during periods when they themselves had emigrated abroad for work. “They always respected the laws and the environment in which they lived,” she said.

Solano argued that the crime exposed systemic failures in security and oversight, particularly at the Mineo reception center, which she described as “a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.” She said authorities were aware of serious problems at the facility, including criminal activity, long before it was eventually closed in 2019. She recalled that then-opposition politician Matteo Salvini, who is now Italy’s deputy prime minister, visited her family after the murders and promised the center would be shut down.

Asked what had gone wrong more broadly, Solano blamed weak controls, a lack of citizen protection, and what she called the absence of “certain and exemplary sentences.” She argued that offenders often believe they will not face serious consequences and are therefore likely to reoffend once released.

“In Italy, those who commit crimes are protected, legally assisted with free legal aid, food, and lodging, while those who suffer a crime count for nothing,” she said. “Victims are abandoned and invisible.”

“No immediate medical or psychological support, no help, no protection,” she said when asked what services had been made available to her in the aftermath of the gruesome double homicide, further revealing that families were left to cover legal and therapeutic costs themselves.

She questioned why Italy has an ombudsman for prisoners but not for victims of violent crime, and said she wanted answers from those in power.

Solano now sits on the board of the National Union of Victims (Unavi), an organization that supports victims of violent crime and their families. She said her involvement was driven by a desire to ensure that others do not endure the same experience. “I’ll never get my parents back, but I can be useful to someone else,” she said.

“I’ve been repeating the same things for 10 years, and I won’t stop repeating them,” she added.

Read the full interview here.

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Migrant who fled to Britain after sexual assault on schoolgirl fighting deportation on human rights

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A migrant who fled Germany to come to Britain after being convicted of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl is fighting deportation due to human rights.

Azizadeen Alsheikh Suliman, 31, was given a suspended sentence after sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on a boozy night out in the German city of Osnabrück in 2022.

Suliman, who left his native Syria after being shot in the foot, then escaped via a small boat to the UK, the Daily Mail reports.

A court heard that Suliman gave his name incorrectly and was put up in taxpayer-funded accommodation in an upmarket suburb in Greater Manchester, along with his pregnant wife, an asylum seeker whom he married in Nigeria, and their newborn baby.

He was caught out in October, identified as a fugitive, and held under a European Arrest Warrant.

He appeared in court last week claiming his life would be at risk if he were returned to Germany.

But local MPs have been left raging after being unaware of his abhorrent past.

On the boozy night out in 2022, Suliman asked the schoolgirl for a light for his cigarette before swapping Instagram accounts.

Then, he advanced and “touched her bare stomach” beneath her crop top, gave her half a gram of cannabis and “moved closer to her and attempted to kiss her,” according to German court documents.

After the girl rejected his movements towards her, Suliman “stood in her way and prevented her from passing him by placing his arm around her shoulders”.

“With his other hand, the defendant first touched the victim against her will above her clothing on her chest and bottom and then tried to pull down her trousers,” the judgement read.

And despite the girl “holding her trousers with both hands”, she was unable to prevent her attacker from touching her and then exposing himself.

Suliman was convicted of sexual assault and supplying drugs to a minor. He was given a suspended sentence.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that, after he stopped paying a financial order imposed during sentencing, he was facing possible imprisonment before fleeing to the UK.

Now facing deportation, Suliman told the extradition hearing that he is being threatened by family members in Germany.

He also denied misspelling his name, blaming an interpreter for the error.

Suliman claimed that he was from a “huge tribe” in Syria, admitting that his cousin “killed five males from another family”, and that they “burnt the whole village”.

In revenge, the other family “killed three of my cousins”, he said. “So they are still missing another two. And I am one of these two.”

Lawyers representing German authorities said that his explanation “doesn’t stand up to scrutiny”.

Miriam Smith, for the German authorities, said the UK has become a “safe haven” for those who commit crimes abroad, adding “it can’t be a coincidence” he gave an incorrect spelling for his name upon arriving on British shores.

Sophia Kerridge, defending, however said Suliman could breach his Article 8 rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees a right to family life.

A judge will now decide whether deporting Suliman would breach his human rights.

Robert Jenrick, fresh off his defection to Reform UK last week, slammed the case.

“This despicable individual needs to be kicked out of the country immediately,” he told the Daily Mail.

“It’s appalling that taxpayer money was funding the cushy lifestyle of a child abuser.

“Disgusting cases like this will only end when we leave the ECHR and grow a backbone and force other countries to take their criminals back.”

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Portugal’s ‘Chega’ Party Poised to Bring the Right to Power in Presidential Election – Headed to Runoff Against Socialists

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‘Chega’ (‘Enough’) is Portugal’s answer to the Globalist policies that are destroying their country.

Six years after it was founded, a rightwing party is poised to rise to power in today’s presidential election in Portugal.

No less than 11 candidates are involved in the election, making it likely that the two top candidates will have to compete in a runoff ballot next month in the likely event that no one gets over 50% of the vote.

‘Portugal needs a cleaning’: a Chega political billboard.

Associated Press reported:

“Almost 11 million people are eligible to vote in the election, with most results expected late in the day. The winner will replace President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who has served the limit of two five-year terms.

Among the front-runners, according to recent opinion polls, are André Ventura, the leader of the populist Chega (Enough) party. Chega’s surge in public support made it the second-largest party in Portugal’s parliament last year.”

Unsurprisingly, one of Ventura’s main targets has been unchecked mass immigration.

‘Portugal is ours’, he says.

“During the election campaign, Ventura put up billboards across the country saying, ‘This isn’t Bangladesh’ and ‘Immigrants shouldn’t be allowed to live on welfare’.”

While the Socialist candidate did get the first place, Ventura is still favorite. See the results:

Seguro (Socialist Party | Center-Left) – 30%

Ventura (Chega | Right) – 26.75%

Marques Mendes (PSD | Center-right): 14.26%

Cotrim (Liberal Initiative | Center-right): 12.36%

As we can see, Ventura came less than four points behind Seguro, but there are other two rightwing candidates with a combined vote total of almost 27% – and it’s widely expected that Chega will inherit most of these.

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Princess Eugenie Reportedly Cut off All Contact With Disgraced Father Andrew Over Epstein Scandal

Even his own daughter is said to be turning her back on him.

Disgraced former Prince Andrew seems to be losing something far dearer to him than his royal titles and patronages: his own daughter.

British Princess Eugenie has reportedly cut off all contact with Andrew in the wake of the flood of revelations regarding the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Daily Mail reported:

“Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles in October over his links to the pedophile financier, is said to be ‘devastated’ at the estrangement from his younger daughter, which followed months of further damaging revelations last year about his relationship with Epstein.”

Reports say Eugenie is ‘refusing to speak’ to her father, and did not visit him at Christmas.

“Eugenie, who established The Anti-Slavery Collective to help counter sex trafficking, is said to be taking a dim view of her father’s refusal to apologize to Epstein’s victims.”

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Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell and redacted Epstein’s victims: the torrent of revelations was reportedly too much for Eugenie.

“A source told the MoS the rift is like that between the Beckhams: ‘There is no contact at all, nothing. […] She has completely cut him off’.”

Andrew’s older daughter, Princess Beatrice, is remaining in contact with her father while maintaining her standing in the Royal Family.

“Beatrice invited Andrew to the christening of her 11-month-old daughter Athena in London last month but, perhaps tellingly, he did not attend a party held afterwards in a local pub.”

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Portugal’s Populist Surge: Andre Ventura, leader of the hard-right Chega party, captured 24 percent of the vote in Portugal’s presidential election

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In a surprising outcome, Andre Ventura, leader of Portugal’s far-right Chega party, placed second in the presidential election. He will face centre-left candidate Antonio Jose Seguro in a runoff. Ventura’s rise highlights the growing influence of populist parties in Europe, challenging the traditional political landscape.

In a dramatic turn of events, Andre Ventura, leader of the hard-right Chega party, captured 24 percent of the vote in Portugal’s presidential election. This unexpected result sets the stage for a runoff where Ventura will face off against centre-left candidate Antonio Jose Seguro, who led with nearly 31 percent.

Ventura’s strong showing signals a significant shift to the far-right in European politics. It follows a pattern where nationalist parties have gained increased influence across the continent, with Chega’s rise mirroring trends seen in France, Germany, and Spain, among others.

Ventura’s campaign, marked by anti-immigrant rhetoric, has drawn support away from Portugal’s mainstream political parties. As Portugal navigates its political future, the next president will face the challenge of stabilizing a nation grappling with political instability, a housing crisis, and ongoing debates over immigration.

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