"The live debate on CNN Portugal on 28 March 2023 was, however, only one of 29 ‘live interview/debate’ slots in which André Ventura has had media exposure on the TVI/CNN Portugal group since 2019.
André Ventura was the only Chega Member of Parliament until 2022, a position he achieved with 1.29% of the vote in 2019. The lone voice who only received less than 70,000 votes had just two fewer interviews than the leader of the party that won nearly 1.5 million votes (at the time, Rui Rio, president of the PSD). The period under review (from April 2019 to January 2022) accounts for the post-presidential election period, in which André Ventura managed to increase his support to 500,000 votes. However, the disparity in interview numbers was exactly the same even before this more significant election result.
Between receiveing 7% in 2022 and 18% in 2024, André Ventura was interviewed 27 times. 400,000 votes in 2022 turned into more than double the number of interviews with the leader of the party that won 1.5 million votes, the PSD. “Even today, we still give André Ventura media coverage that does not correspond to his election results,” says Alexandre Malhado.
“What is gained from 27 interviews with the same person? Where is the informative value?” asks João Carvalho, who accuses the media of no longer caring about political pluralism: “They give much more attention to political figures who generate controversy, even though the informative value of this coverage may be very little.” Although Chega has “a strategy to saturate the news”, it is not the party that creates this much media exposure, “the media outlets provide it”."
https://voxeurop.eu/en/portugal-far-right-chega-journalism/