Word: marios
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...deliberation. In essence, the program would give power to the people through local revolutionary councils. To some, the establishment of the plan looked like a Communist-inspired attempt to bypass the popularly elected Constituent Assembly, in which the moderate forces have a majority. Portugal's outraged Socialist leader, Mario Scares-perhaps the country's best hope for Socialism with a human face -resigned from the government, in which he served as Minister Without Portfolio, declaring that his party "will never accept a dictatorship." Officially, Scares resigned to protest the fact that the government had refused to give back...
...False News." The overwhelming response was one of relief that Portugal once again had stepped back from the brink of dictatorship. Some Council members, it is believed, argued for the immediate establishment of a Communist state but were rejected by the majority. Said Socialist Mario Soares, leader of Portugal's largest political party: "There is more hope for parliamentary democracy today than there was yesterday." The communiqué, he added, "is very explicit because it rejects a dictatorship of the proletariat and the way of a people's democracy and reaffirms the original movement toward a socialism compatible...
Futile Effort. A week earlier the fight between the Socialists and Communists, who are allied to the radical faction of the M.F.A., had seemed headed toward a showdown (TIME, June 2). Communist printers had forced the closing of the Socialist newspaper Republica, and Socialist Leader Mario Soares had vowed that he would attend no more meetings of the Cabinet, in which he is a Minister Without Portfolio, until the newspaper was allowed to resume publication. His vow raised the threat that the Socialists, who won 38% in the last elections but hold no real power under the present system, might...
Ugliest Epithet. Outside the building, Socialist Leader Mario Scares and thousands of his supporters kept an all-night vigil in the rain. In the ugliest epithet imaginable, the angry crowd called Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal "a new Salazar"-after the late dictator who ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary...
...celebrate. The election for a constituent assembly had come off with impressive decorum, unmarred by violence or corruption. The Portuguese could also take pride in the fact that an astonishing 92% of the electorate had turned out to give an overwhelming victory to the moderates. The final tally gave Mario Soares' Socialists the lion's share-38% of the vote and 115 seats in the 247-member assembly. In second place were the middle-reading Popular Democrats, with 26% and 80 seats, while the Communists trailed a poor third, with only 12.5% and 30 seats. The Communist-allied...