Abstract
On April 25, 1974 the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) rose against the dictatorial regime that had ruled Portugal for 48 years (1926-1974). The idea of preventing the appropriation of the coup and avoid a new dictatorship, led the captains to provide a minimum political program, based on three basic ideas: decolonization, democratization, and development. Nevertheless, the downfall of the dictatorship did not provide for the immediate advent of democracy, and the coup d’etat led to a hard and long confrontation between the 'revolutionary' and 'electoral” paths, leading not only to the breakdown of the military power as well as to the questioning of the role of the Constituent Assembly, before and after its election. Enviado el / Submission Date: 03/04/2012 Aceptado el / Acceptance Date: 15/05/2012
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