The presentation of the resignation request, which is irrevocable – Paulo Portas presents his resignation from the Government on the 2nd of July, 2013. Early anticipations seem to be the most likely scenario. However, the resignation is revocable and Paulo Portas ends up coming back and for the position of vice-prime-minister
On the 13th of April, 1961, in his statement, broadcast on radio and television, Salazar is peremptory: the confrontations in the then colony escalate so much that the intervention of the metropolis is needed. Those were the first days of Colonial War. The advice of the dictator is conveyed effectively: “To go rapidly and in force is the goal that is going to test our decision ability”
In the early hours of the 25th of April, 1974, in Santarém, Salgueiro Maia motivates his soldiers to follow him to Lisbon and revolutionise the state of the nation. The country is about to change
The President of the Republic, Américo Tomás, whose election raises doubts of electoral fraud, parades around the country in successive inaugurations and events. The expression, used during Estado Novo, remains in the memory of the Portuguese people
The three and a half hours of the debate who opposed Álvaro Cunhal and Mário Soares, on the 6th of November, 1975, made history. The expression repeated by the Communist leader entered the vocabulary of the Portuguese people
The expression, used on the 9th of November, 1975, by Pinheiro de Azevedo in response to civil riots in Terreiro do Paço, went down in history during PREC. The prime minister of the VI Provisional Government is known by his words
