Abstract
The elections of 25 April 1975 had the highest participation to date in the Portuguese democratic experience. The competing forces organized electoral manifestos that covered a wide range of topics, with complex resources and analysis of the economic problems and the development of the Portuguese space. However, these manifestos’ contents are rich, there has not been a proper effort to study these political messages and reflect on the supply of answers provided by the competing parties to the collective needs assumed by the population, especially regarding Portuguese health. This work reviews these contents through a content analysis methodology, with the conclusion that the most common themes were related to the socioeconomic rights of Portuguese citizens and the need to boost development of different regions and fields, especially health. Other themes that the parties took on as central issues were those related to the war in the overseas territory and the stabilization of the emerging democratic process.
Highlights
What parties write is the current source of research in various scientific areas
Based on the various texts signed by MFA leaders (MFA “Motor of the Portuguese Revolution”, 1975) and in complementary literature [47], we can synthesize the focus of the movement into the following points, converging with the so-called Revolutionary Program of the MFA
This was the first focused work dealing with the electoral manifestos of 1975 in Portugal through a content the parties’
Summary
The way the message is structured, the terms used, the expressions constructed, and the links between the themes are themselves relevant fields of analysis. This fact underpins the focus of this analysis, which covers the 1975 Portuguese election, a crucial moment of popular response to the military coup of 25 April 1974 that changed the political regime in Portugal. This work will analyze the content of the messages transmitted at that time by the official manifestos of these 12 parties. In addition to testing the central hypothesis, in this work, we will analyze the distribution of relevant terms along different socioeconomic dimensions and proceed to an analysis of the similarity of the identified expressions.
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