After he was surrounded in S. Bento by workers for 36 hours, Prime-Minister of the VI I Provisional Government voices his discontent. Pinheiro de Azevedo tells the President of the Republic, on the 21st of November, 1975, that his Government had decided to start a strike
The statement of Pedro Santana Lopes in his final intervention in the XXVII Congress of PSD, in Pombal, marks the intention of the outgoing PSD leader Pedro Santana Lopes, not to withdraw from political life .
In May 1985, Cavaco Silva supposedly went to Figueira da Foz due to his car, but he was elected leader of PSD. The politician says he the political twist hadn’t been planned, he just decided to take his new car and go the PSD Convention
A firm anti-smoker activist, Macário Correia, then secretary of state for the environment, declared, on the 2nd of October, 1994, war on cigarettes and became one of the first people to propose the existence of anti-smoking legislation
Luís Filipe Menezes caused controversy in 1995, by announcing, during the XVII National Congress of PSD, the existence of a “southern, elitist and liberal axis” that would take over the party in case Durão Barroso won against Fernando Nogueira
The longest 25 seconds of António Guterres' political career are still remembered by the Portuguese people. The then candidate to Prime-Minister was caught off guard on live television and made a mathematical gaffe, on the 30th of May, 1995
