CHEGA! A sceptre of the mainstream Portuguese parties' mistrust or a spectre of fascism?

Over the past four decades, Portuguese voters have imprinted a solid resistance to the emergence of radical far-right parties (RFR) in the political setting. If we look backwards at the European scene, Portugal has lived in an antithesis time besides the mainstream party's progressive electoral decline. This time ended in the 2019 legislative elections when the CHEGA, a self-located party on the far-right spectrum, with a posture assumed as anti-system and unconcerned with the accusations of racism and hate exhilaration, elected André Ventura to the national parliament. Moreover, in the 2021 presidential elections, André Ventura got 497,746 votes, a scant point to be the second most-voted candidate. The 2022 legislative elections placed CHEGA as the third most-voted party, and the number of members in parliament has climbed to twelve. However, this bummer scenario does not arise ex nihilo...