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Portugal THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM
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Assembly of the Republic, Lisbon
Courtesy Andrea Matles Savada
Portugal made remarkable political progress after 1974.
It
replaced the authoritarian-corporatist regime of Salazar,
and, as
of the beginning of the 1990s, the country appeared to
have
successfully made the transition to democracy. Although
political
and governmental problems remained, the government was
popularly
elected, it functioned according to the constitution, and,
since
the mid-1980s, had done so with notable stability. The
successful
transition to democracy in the Iberian Peninsula since the
mid1970s (in Spain, as well as in Portugal) may be thought of
as one
of the most significant political transformations of the
late
twentieth century.
Data as of January 1993
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