PORTUGAL: PRESIDENT AMERICO THOMAZ AND PREMIER SALAZAR VOTE PORTUGUESE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION

Record ID: 328498

  • Title: PORTUGAL: PRESIDENT AMERICO THOMAZ AND PREMIER SALAZAR VOTE PORTUGUESE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION
  • Date: 13th November 1961
  • Summary: 1. GV.NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LISBON DURING PUBLIC VOTING. 0.03 2. GV.PEOPLE WALK INTO MAIN HALL TO VOTE. 0.06 3. GTV.PEOPLE VOTE PAN LV OF HALL. 0.11 4. SV.DITTO. 0.16 5. SV PAN..PEOPLE VOTE. 0.20 6. SV.DITTO. 0.23 7. SV.CLERK WITH REGISTER. 0.26 8. LV.PEOPLE VOTE. 0.29 WHIP PAN 9. SV.SALAZAR CASTS VOTE PEOPLE CLAP. 0.37 10. SV.SALAZAR WALKS FROM VOTING HALL. 0.40 11. LV.SALAZAR INTO CAR, PAN PEOPLE CLAP. 0.47 WHIP PAN 12. SV PAN..PRESIDENT THOMAZ INTO HALL. 0.51 13. CU.BALLOT BOWL WITH "CASCAIS" INSCRIPTION 0.53 14. SV PAN..CLERK BEHIND COUNTER TO THOMAZ CASTING VOTE. 1.00 15. SV.THOMAZ SHAKES HANDS WITH OFFICIALS. 1.05 Initials JRG/S/PB JRG/S/MGT/PB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th November 1961 12:00
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  • Location: ESTORIL AND CASCAIS, PORTUGAL
  • Country: Portugal
  • Reuters ID: LVA7C144RH5BFNVW279S40FNIXWF
  • Story Text: FOR THE EIGHTH TIME SINCE DR. SALAZAR'S 'NEW STATE' CAME INTO BEING IN 1933, VOTING TOOK PLACE IN PORTUGAL FOR DEPUTIES FOR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, NOV 12. THE PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL, ADMIRAL AMERICO THOMAZ, VOTED EARLY IN CASCAIS, A SMALL TOURIST TOWN, THIRTY KILOMETRES FROM HIS HOME, AND THE PRIME MINISTER DR. SALAZAR VOTED IN ESTORIL. REPORTS SAID ELECTION DAY WAS A CALM ONE.

    THE ELECTION - FOR 130 DEPUTIES FOR A FOUR-YEAR TERM - WAS UNCONTESTED. BY EARLY NOV 13, DR. SALAZAR'S NATIONAL UNION CANDIDATES POLLED AN AVERAGE OF JUST OVER 68 PER CENT OF THE ELECTORATE IN FIVE PORTUGUESE ELECTORAL REGIONS. RESULTS FROM THE REMAINING 25 WERE EXPECTED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

    AMONG OPPONENTS, OUTSPOKEN OR SILENT OF PORTUGAL'S RULERS: THE COUNCIL FOR FREEDOM IN PORTUGAL AND THE PORTUGUESE DEMOCRATIC ???, THE PORTUGUESE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS, STUDENTS IN LISBOND SHOUTING 'LIBERTY, FREEDOM!' CATHOLIC ACTION OF PORTUGAL, THE ILLEGAL COMMUNIST PARTY OF PORTUGAL, AND THE ANTI-TOTALITARIAN FRONT OF FREE PORTUGUESE ABROAD RUN BY CAPTAIN HENRIQUE GALVAO WHO SEIZED THE LINER SANTA MARIA IN THE CARIBBEAN LAST JANUARY AND ORGANISED A LEAFLET RAID OVER LISBON, NOV 10.
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