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O percurso do Movimento Federalista Português- Partido do Progresso

2024; University of Porto; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/0871164x/hist14_1a15

2183-0460

Rafael Dias,

Historical and Political Studies

This article aims to explain the journey of a relevant actor on the political right in the post-revolutionary context of 1974: the Portuguese Federalist Movement-Party of Progress. For this purpose, the party's official weekly newspaper, Tribuna Popular, is taken as a reference, as well as testimonies from former leaders and founders, with other periodical sources of the time and various printed sources as counterparts. The MFP-PP is analyzed by jointly relating the historical-political era with the vicissitudes of the movement, with a particular focus on its relationship with the institutions of revolutionary power, its relationship with other political parties, as well as the structuring of the MFP-PP. In this way, the article is based between the moments following the coup d'état of April 25, 1974 and the political-military movements of September 28, 1974 linked to the intention of the “silent majority”, to which a detailed analysis is provided, regarding the involvement of the MFP-PP, due to its inextricable connection with the dismantling of the party.