The revolutionary process and the Portuguese centre-right: Between adherence and dissent

Authors

  • Gregorio Sabater Navarro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.207.03

Abstract

The disruptive nature of the beginnings of Portuguese democratization generated a complex identification of the centre-right sectors somewhat close to the dictatorship with the new stage of the country. These sectors swung initially between a narrative favorable to political change in general, thereby supporting the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA) —the real guardian of the process—, with criticism of the leftist drift in moments of greatest revolutionary agitation. The arrival of the Verão Quente of 1975 meant the break between the Christian democrat Centro Democrático Social and the MFA and its political project, adopting a dissident discourse from then on. This discourse was joined by the Partido Popular Democrático in the post-revolutionary stage, in a context of convergence with the Western European pattern that would motivate a questioning of the revolution through a critical memory of the recent past.

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Published

2025-03-27

How to Cite

Sabater Navarro, G. . (2025). The revolutionary process and the Portuguese centre-right: Between adherence and dissent. Revista De Estudios Políticos, (207), 89–117. https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.207.03

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ACTORES, NARRATIVAS Y MEMORIAS DE LOS PROCESOS DEMOCRATIZADORES