IN LAST Sunday's presidential election in • Portugal, the incumbent president, General Eanes, won a decisive victory over the rightwing challenge of Soares Carneiro. The PSR (Revolutionary Socialist Party), tuguese section of the Fourth International, supported the candidature of Otelo de Carvalho whose vote, at the time of going to press, is not known.
• Otelo played an importionary events 1974-5.
The decision of PSR to country into political crisis the Porsupport Otelo arose from tuguese the Communist Party WOrKerS' parties and Prime Minister, Sa Carneiro, died in a plane crash last week throwing the the Socialist Party, to stand has presided for several years over capitalist austerity measures The Democratic Alliance. the grouping right-wing. watch won a decisive victory in the parliamentary cloud, vul up is Wil call soares carnelo, d former fascist The CP and SP, instead ot putting torwara a can •care to man tor workers Timidity It is alleged that his supsignatures to get Rodriguez on the ballot by asking peo ple to sign for a competition sion, or alternatively by posing as investigators survey about cigarette Otelo is the best known leader or tne rortuguese tal His candidature provided the best he being porn Portugal to express their op no on to ances acc the cowardice and timidity of the workers' parties Socialist Challenge 10 December 1960