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Coup of 25 November 1975

Failed Portuguese far-left military coup

Summary

Failed Portuguese far-left military coup

Field	Value
conflict	Coup of 25 November 1975
date	25 November 1975
place	Portugal
result	Coup failure
combatant1	Portugal Group of Nine
Portugal Council of the Revolution
combatant2	Portugal Far-left coup plotters
Portugal Parachute Troops School
commander1	Portugal Ramalho Eanes
Portugal Mário Soares
Portugal António Pires Veloso
commander2	unknown

Portugal Council of the Revolution Portugal Parachute Troops School Portugal Mário Soares Portugal António Pires Veloso The Coup of 25 November 1975 (usually referred to as the 25 de Novembro in Portugal) was a failed military coup d'état against the post-Carnation Revolution governing bodies of Portugal. This attempt was carried out by Portuguese far-left activists, who hoped to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy in favor of a communist state.

Events

The political, economic, and social crisis in post-Carnation Revolution Portugal, a period known as PREC, and the make-up of The Constituent Assembly, the first democratically elected organ after the fall of the previous regime, gave rise to serious confrontations during what became known as the Hot Summer of 1975. This caused a division in the Armed Forces Movement which had been responsible for the overthrowing of the Estado Novo regime. It was the coup on 25 November 1975, followed by a counter-coup led by Ramalho Eanes, a pro-democracy moderate (and supported by moderate socialist Mário Soares), that re-established the democratic process.

25 of November

On this day, dissident paratroopers tried to seize military complexes across the country, in a coup attempt that was easily defeated by commandos loyal to the government. With the country engulfed in political chaos, some hundreds of military personnel sympathetic to the extreme left seized the Monsanto Air Base, the Air Force School, and five other air bases in the capital and in the south of Portugal.

References

Álvaro de Vasconcelos and Maria João Seabra (eds.); Francisco Seixas da Costa... [et al.]. ''Portugal: A European Story''. Cascais: Principia, 2000; {{ISBN. 972-8500-32-7
Lochery, Neill. (2017). ["Out of the Shadows: Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day"]({{google books). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Gilbert, Mark. (2014). ["Cold War Europe: The Politics of a Contested Continent"]({{google books). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Falcão, Catarina. (24 November 2015). "25 de Novembro. O fim da revolução, mas só para alguns". Observador.

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