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Mário Soares and Freitas do Amaral: the historic 1986 presidential elections, 40 years on

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Mário Soares and Freitas do Amaral: the historic 1986 presidential elections, 40 years on

In this episode of 'History Repeats Itself', Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho and Lourenço Pereira Coutinho invited journalist João Reis Alves, author of the book 'The Second Round, 1986: the elections that changed the country', to discuss the historic 1986 presidential elections. What was the Portuguese political, economic and social context on the eve of those elections?

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