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 | | Salazars New State rested on the belief that Portugals decadence, which it had halted and reversed, had been inextricably linked to the untimely adoption, and subsequent degeneration, of liberal politics. |
 | | And when, in April 1974, Salazars successor, Marcello Caetano, was overthrown, the balance was excessively tipped in the other direction, with a refusal to acknowledge the inherent difficulties faced by Salazars republican predecessors and the mistakes they committed while in power, which so alienated a considerable part of the politicised population. |
 | | Salazar was able to create consensus among the countrys elite, resisting both the liberal-democratic and the fascist threats. |
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