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Agenda Municipal / Exhibitions August 1975 - Famalicão on the map of the Revolution by António Pereira de Sousa

August 1975 - Famalicão on the map of the Revolution by António Pereira de Sousa
Until 04 May
Bernardino Machado Museum

Free admission | Opening: 04 April, at 17h00

It was the beginning of August 1975. Just over three months earlier, the PS and the then PPD were the most voted parties for the Constituent Assembly, in the first free elections after 25 April.
The will of the people, however, was not always accepted by a fragmented power. There were deep fractures within the Armed Forces. The government didn't mirror the parliamentary majority and was challenged on the streets.
It was in this political environment that the hot summer of ‘75 arrived. Portugal was immersed in PREC - the ongoing revolutionary process - and in Famalicão (and in many of the country's outlying towns), people were worried that the Carnation Revolution would end in civil war.


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