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Socialist Press1979 1979-07-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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In Portugal, as in Italy, the weakness of the . bourgeoisie takes the form of a complete failure to find a government with a parliamentary majority.
For nearly a year parliamentary government, SO laboriously set up in 1976 by the bourgeoisie with the help of the Stalinists and reformists as a way • ot neutralising the revolutionary situation which broke out in 1974, has been effectively paralysed.
Two efforts by the military President Ramalho Eanes to impose governments of "technocrats" from outside parliament have broken down .completely.
Last week a series of discussions with parliamentary leaders simply confirmed the im passe.
The leaders of the largest party, the Socialist Party, are unable for fear of losing even more working class support to join a coalition with either of the two big bourgeois parties (the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats).