André Ventura and João Cotrim de Figueiredo, who meet at SIC on the same Friday that an Intercampus survey places their eventual reunion in the second round of the presidential elections as possible – although not probable, as André Ventura has 18.7% voting intentions, Marques Mendes follows with 16.9% and Cotrim de Figueiredo with 13.6%, with a margin of error of four percentage points -, they were once hallway neighbors.
It happened in the legislature resulting from the 2019 legislative elections, when Ventura and Cotrim de Figueiredo became the first deputies of Chega and the Liberal Initiative. They had their offices side by side, in a corridor of the new Assembly of the Republic building, but they quickly moved to the old building, as its parliamentary groups multiplied, but with an advantage for Chega, which elected 12 deputies in 2022, 50 in 2024 and 60 in 2025, while the Liberal Initiative reached eight mandates, which it maintained in 2024, now without Rui Rocha, rising to nine this year.