- Title: PORTUGAL: BANNED MAOISTS PROTEST AT "ELECTORAL FARCE".
- Date: 23rd April 1975
- Summary: 1. GV Demonstrators assemble chanting (2 shots) 0.16 2. CU Parent of arrested party member speaking PAN TO chanting crowd (2 shots) 0.43 Initials CL/1945 CL/1950 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 8th May 1975 13:00
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- Location: LISBON, PORTUGAL
- Country: Portugal
- Reuters ID: LVA23HISDLM1Y9AT1QDK4D82TSUD
- Story Text: In Lisbon on Monday (21 April) the Maoist Movement for the Reorganisation of the Proletarian Party (M.R.P.P.) staged a protest at what they have called an "electoral farce".
On Friday (25 April) Portugal goes to the polls in the country's first free elections for 48 years. But not the Maoists -- their Party has been banned from taking part in the elections.
Two thousand of them staged a rally and marched to a government building, which was guarded by troops and armoured cars.
They are also protesting for the release of over 100 of their comrades recently arrested since the start of the election campaign.
The M.R.P.P. has been branded a "counter-revolutionary organisation" by the Communists and severely criticised by the left-wing military.
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