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A Republic

On October 5, 1910, the Portuguese monarchy was overthrown and a republic declared.

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Unfortunately, the First Republic of Portugal was characterized by illiberal leftism, and in particular by a confusion of the idea of separation of church and state with fixated suppression of the Church by the state. That fixation provoked a counter-​illiberalism, in part because the state was distracted from economic issues, and the First Republic was replaced by an authoritarian, corporatist, third-​way regime that merely kept the Church at arms length.

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