CHEGA! 

CHEGA!  (Por­tuguese for “Enough!”) is a Por­tuguese far-right par­ty found­ed in 2019 by André Ven­tu­ra after split­ting from the cen­ter-right PSD. Ini­tial­ly pro­pelled by anti-estab­lish­ment pop­ulism, it has con­sol­i­dat­ed into a nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive force built around law-and-order max­i­mal­ism, hard­line posi­tions on immi­gra­tion and “gen­der ide­ol­o­gy,” and a civ­i­liza­tion­al frame of nation, fam­i­ly, and reli­gion. Elec­toral­ly, CHEGA surged in 2025 to become Portugal’s main oppo­si­tion, reshap­ing the par­ty sys­tem. At the EU lev­el, the par­ty aligned with the nation­al-con­ser­v­a­tive bloc by join­ing the Patri­ots for Europe group after the 2024 Euro­pean elec­tions, posi­tion­ing itself along­side Fidesz, RN, and FPÖ. Its tra­jec­to­ry is thus a mix of pop­ulist style and doc­tri­nal nation­al con­ser­vatism, with grow­ing lever­age over Portugal’s pol­i­cy debate and clear inte­gra­tion into the con­ti­nen­tal net­work of the right.

Exter­nal References:

1. Portugal’s far-right Chega becomes main oppo­si­tion party
2. Portugal’s Chega becomes main oppo­si­tion as far right surges
3. Portugal’s far right joins Orbán’s ‘Patri­ots for Europe’ alliance