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Meanwhile, Premier Gonçalves was apparently struggling to assemble a new Cabinet-the fifth since the coup. Al though President Costa Gomes announced at midweek that "a new government has been formed," its composition had not been revealed by week's end. Observers in Lisbon therefore concluded that Gonçalves was having great difficulty in persuading any civilians, except Communists and radical leftists, to serve in a Cabinet that would wield little real power, would be dominated by the military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats...
...Profile. When Soares quit the Cabinet in mid-July, triggering the recent political crisis, his indirect aim was to topple the pro-Communist Gonçalves. At that time, Soares believed that a majority of the Revolutionary Council sympathized with the moderates and were outraged by Gonçalves' ineptness as an administrator and his increasingly close relations with Communist Party Boss Cunhal. Whether or not this assessment was correct, Soares seems to have overplayed his hand. At a mammoth rally of 50,000 Socialist supporters in Lisbon, he demanded the ouster of Gonçalves. Apparently viewing...
...remains to be seen whether Cunhal, who lately has been keeping a very low profile, will be any happier with the troika than Soares is. Creation of the Directory might even be a curb on Gonçalves, since he must share his power with President Costa Gomes, a conciliatory moderate, and with the ambitious Saraiva de Carvalho, a radical leftist who has no use for orthodox Communists. Even the six moderate officers who had boycotted the preliminary meeting, at which the proposal for creating the triumvirate was sketched out, seem to have kept their seats on the Revolutionary Council...
...President became more worried as the Communists and extreme leftists gained influence within the M.F.A. and captured key posts in government bureaucracies. He suffered a major setback when Vasco Gonçalves (then only a colonel) replaced Premier Palma Carlos. Exercising what in retrospect was very poor judgment, Spinola made a desperate attempt to go over the heads of the M.F.A., calling for his country's maioria silenciosa (silent majority) to back him. A mammoth rally in support of the President, scheduled for late September, soon became a test of the moderates v. extremists. Under pressure from the M.F.A...
Cunhal's most valuable ally was Gonçalves. The Premier backed the move to merge all trade unions into a single organization: the Communist-dominated Intersindical. He looked away when the Communists and extreme leftists physically prevented a center-right party from holding its organizing conference and disrupted Socialist election rallies. Red intimidation, in effect, prevented rightists and most centrists from participating in public life...