In a month Portugal will have more time of democracy than dictatorship. and will celebrate
The celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the 25th of April will start on the 24th of March – the date in which the country will have more days of democracy than of dictatorship – with the focus on another anniversary that is celebrated on the same date: the 60 years after the academic crisis of 1962, the revolt of thousands of students against the Salazar regime, harshly repressed by the regime.
One of the several events planned will be an exhibition that will be patented at the Natural History Museum, in Lisbon, during the summer, then heading to Coimbra – as two cities that were the epicenter of the student competition that started in reaction to the student that started in reaction to the that began in reaction to the day of the Day (precisely March 24, 1962) and would last until the end of that year.
At the beginning of April, there is another ephemeris that should not pass by the commemoration plan either – on April 3, exactly 30 years have passed since the date of Salgueiro Maia’s death, one of the great icons of the April Revolution. just this month It is also 50 years since the publication of the New Portuguese Letterswork published by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa in 1972, which would be collected and destroyed by censorship three days after a publication, classified as immoral and under the defense of women’s emancipation.
Celebrations start without new government and AR
It was the prime minister who, last year, announced that commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution will begin on the date when the time of democracy will supplant the dictatorial regime. “On the 24th of March, democracy will already have 17,500 days, surpassing by one day the time that the dictatorship lasted. Therefore, when we think about 2024 and look at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April, the Government and the President of the Republic must understand that these celebrations will start next year, precisely on the 24th of March 2022″, announced António Costa on April 25, 2021.
At a time when the data then agreed between the Government and the Presidency is still one month away, the official program of the commemorations is still not known, in a calendar that ended up being conditioned by the Assembly of the Republic and the holding of early elections, and even more confused by the repetition of those in the circle of Europe, which postponed the inauguration of the new Assembly of the Republic and the Government. The DN questioned the Presidency of the Republic about the calendar of the celebrations, but received no response.
With the conclusion of the electoral process scheduled for March 25th, it is certain that the start of the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of April 25th – which will take place in 2024 – will take place with the current Executive and Composition of the Assembly of the Republic. For now, there is no parliamentary provision, for this initialization phase of the celebrations, initiative. This is reserved for the traditional solemn ceremony on April 25, in the Assembly of the Republic, which will not be the first important institutional event of the next legislature.
In May of last year the Council of Ministers of those responsible for creating an organizing mission structure as April 25 commemorations named Pedro Adão e Silva as executive commissioner. Alongside the mission structure, a National Commission was also created with the Presidency of the Republic.
In June 021 Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Eanes, the Council was also the Ramalho general commission, in a model that foresaw the existence of a General Council, recommended by Colonel Vasco Lourenço. But the former head of the Republic – the first head of state elected after the 25th – ended up abandoning a chairman of the commission, staying before disagreements with Vasco Lourenço. “Considering the 25th of April as the day of the birth of democracy and Colonel Vasco Lourenço one of its most important supporters, there could be no divergences, on the basis of the importance of commemorations privileging those data”, Ramalho Eanes told the weekly Expresso.
With this output, the President of the Republic himself, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, assumed the presidency of the National Commission. And the Council of Ministers then proceeded with an organic change of the entire structure, extinguishing the General Council.
The celebrations of the anniversary of the 25th of April will extend until the 50th anniversary of the entry of the Constitution of the Republic, as well as the holding of legislative, municipal and presidential elections for democracy.