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...formula worked fairly well for a while. A skillful tactician, Scares secured support from Alvaro Cunhal's Communists on such important measures as regulating strikes, then turned around and gained the backing of Francisco Sa Carneiro's centrist Social Democrats (P.S.D.) and Diogo Freitas do Amaral's rightist Social Democratic Center (C.D.S.) on a Communist-opposed bill that permits the firing of workers for cause...
...Popular Democrats were second with 23%, off from last year's 26%. Party Leader Francisco Sà; Carneiro's acerbic campaign attacks on opposition leaders seemed gratuitously harsh to many Portuguese and may have cost the party votes...
...most of the results, Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal assessed the election as a "victory for the left," meaning a popular mandate for a coalition of Socialists and Communists. But Cunhal's rivals did not agree. Describing the vote as a clear rejection of the Communists, Sà Carneiro called for a coalition of center parties that would bar a role for Cunhal. Socialist Leader Mário Soares insisted that he would deal with no one and promised to try to form a minority government...
...POPULAR DEMOCRATS, who came in second last time with 26%, advocate a mixed economy and decentralization of the Communist-dominated Intersindical labor organization. Says Leader Francisco Sá Carneiro, former Minister Without Portfolio: "We are a social democratic party, close in terms of programs and policies to the European social democratic parties in Sweden, West Germany and Holland...
...Popular Democratic Party (P.D.P.), which is a member of the provisional coalition government along with the Socialists and the Communists, represented the "liberal" wing of the subservient National Assembly during the Caetano regime. Party Leader Francisco Sa Carneiro, 40, defends its participation in politics under the dictatorship as "a struggle from within." The P.D.P. espouses a Swedish-style "social democracy" and membership in the European Common Market...