'Key election for Portugal President' (25 June) ...... It is this hostility to Eanes among the working class that forced the Communist Party - reluctantly and very belatedly -to put forward their own candidate, Octavio Pato. But the Stalinists have waged only a muted campaign, with Pato conTining nimselt to mid warnings wat artempis at captanst re cuperation' would lead to social unrest .....
To back Carvalho, however, as the IS and its collaborators do, is to put left phraseology in place of a real fight telefeat Eanes and the Socialist Party-capitalist coalition. Jany case, Carvalho lent himself to the dubious 25 November 'plot' which gave the green light to reaction In practice, a strong vote for the Communist Party candidate Pato would be a blow both at Soares and his capitalist-military backers, and at the Stalinists who have no wish to be forced out into the open as revolutionary conflicts inevitably draw closer Socialist