PORTUGAL: TROOPS PUT ON LIMITED ALERT AS SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER MARIO SOARES ADDRESS RALLY TO EXPLAIN HIS PARTY'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

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  • Title: PORTUGAL: TROOPS PUT ON LIMITED ALERT AS SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER MARIO SOARES ADDRESS RALLY TO EXPLAIN HIS PARTY'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
  • Date: 12th July 1975
  • Summary: 1. CU Singer at rally. 0.03 2. GV AND CU People listening. (4 shots) 0.18 3. GV Band ZOOM OUT TO audience. 0.27 4. SCU Soares speaking to crowd. 0.40 5. CU People listen and socialist emblem.(3 SHOTS) 0.50 6. SV Soares speaking 1.26 The leader of Portugal's biggest political party, the Socialist, Dr. Mario Soares, took time off from urgent party meeting on Friday night to address a mass rally of his supporters in Lisbon. Dr. Soares explained his party's decision to withdraw from the provisional government. He said Portugal was "not marching to socialism, but towards a sort of state capitalism which begins to sprout into a police-type regime.... While Dr. Soares was addressing his rally, the Prime Minister, General Vasco Gonclaves cancelled a planned overseas trip to attend an all-night session of the ruling Council of the Revolution. A statement issued after the meeting, condemned the Socialist walk-out and informed Portugal that the troops had been put on a limited alert. However, Dr. Soares has challenged the Armed Forces Movement to say whether it could claim to govern Portugal with the support of only minority parties....who represent only about eighteen per cent of the population. He was referring to rumblings in the Centre-Left Popular Democrats Party (PPD)...many party members want to follow the Socialist out of the government. Between them, the Socialist and the PPD won sixty four per cent of the votes in the elections last April. Initials VS ??? VS 1.50 TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LISBON, PORTUGAL
  • Country: Portugal
  • Reuters ID: LVA8EUHW5CR8QDFX7PLS2UDSQRO3
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