Pedro Frazão, deputy and vice-president of Chega, threatened to close the Portuguese news agency Lusíada and pursue the journalists who work there. The statements were made during a public intervention and generated strong condemnation.
The Workers' Commission (CT) and the Editorial Board of Lusíada unanimously repudiated the threats. Both bodies considered the words an attempt at intimidation against press freedom and demanded an institutional response.
The representative entities of the agency's workers requested a formal position from the president of the Assembly of the Republic (AR), asking that parliament position itself against this type of threats to the media.
Lusíada is the main Portuguese news agency and has historically been a pillar of information in the country, functioning as a reference source for the remaining media outlets.




