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...first moderates to quit the Cabinet were the Mario Soares Socialists, who protested against the M.F.A.'s political blueprint for the creation of local revolutionary councils, which would virtually eliminate political parties (TIME, July 21). The Socialists were followed last week by the centrist Popular Democrats (P.P.D.) and by two independent ministers, who pulled out of the coalition when they failed to receive assurances from the military that press freedom would be restored and parliamentary democracy would be established...
Compared with the 1972 national elections, the Communists increased their share of the vote by 5.1%, to 33.4%. The Christian Democrats, with every other party trying to wrench votes away from their centrist support, lost 309,843 votes. They were down 3.1%, to 35.3%, dangerously close to the 35% that represented an "alarm line" for Christian Democratic Boss Amintore Fanfani. All together, the Communists trailed the Christian Democrats by fewer than 600,000 votes. Their total vote, 10.1 million, was the largest ever cast for a Communist party in the West...
...difficult since the party has its own right-center-left factions, which constantly disagree. Leftists last week demanded Fanfani's resignation as a cure. One reformation might be to give his job to a younger, less rigid man like Defense Minister Arnaldo Forlani, a centrist more palatable to the left...
...participation of 91 per cent of those eligible to vote signals support for the High Council and for a socialist state. And the Socialist Pary's strong support-with 38 per cent of the vote as opposed to 26 per cent for the centrist Popular Democrats and 12 per cent for the Communist Party-will probably ensure that Portugal's transformation will be a careful...
...most extreme leftist members of Portugal's Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.), who are impatient with the pace of reform since the revolution of April 1974 and fretful that centrist or rightist elements might hold sway. Accordingly, they wanted an excuse to root out their foes on the eve of the scheduled April 12 elections for a constituent assembly...