ELECTION CAMPAIGN
The comrades of the Liga Comunista Internacionalista (LCI — Internationa list Communist
League, sympathizing organization of the Fourth International in Portugal) waged an active revolutionary campaign during the elections to the constituent assembly. For the comrades' evaluation of the political significance of the election results, see the article
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PORTUGAL on page 12 of this issue of INPRECOR Throughout the electoral campaign, the LCI was able to distribute its propaganda massively, by utilizing the mass media, by handing out leaflets and brochures, and by selling its weekly, Luta Proletária. The LCI was granted six hours of radio time and five television broadcasts of ten minutes each. These Five broadcasts were based around the following political axes: *Why the LCI did not sign the pact of the MFA; the struggle of the soldiers; * The lessons of March 11; *Workers self-management; *The workers government; * The construction and the role of the revolutionary party: In addition, all the dailies and week lies of the country devoted many columns to the propaganda of the LCI. Each week our comrades gave special place to one of these themes in their general propaganda. In addition to an electoral manifesto and an action program, two brochures were published, one on workers struggles in Spain and one on "the socialism that we ant. Many meetings were organized; some of these included the participation of comrades Ernest Mandel (at the beginning of the campaign) and Alain Krivine (at the end of the campaign).
OF THE LCI The LCI presented candidates in four districts, winning a total of 10,732 votes (0.19% of the national tota l): 3, 685 in Lisbon (0.30% of the total); 4, 568 in Porto (0.57%); 1, 125 in Setúbal (0.33%); and 978 in Leiria (0.41%). (The difference betwee the total and the result obtained by adding up the results of the districts is due to the fact that the district figures are provisional ones given immediately ofter the vote.) The other organizations of the workers movemen obtained the following results: SP: 37.87%, total of 2,145,392 votes (running n 22 districts); CP - 12.53%, 709, 639 (22 districts): MDP - 4.12%, 233, 362 (22 districts); FSP - 1.17%, 66,161 (15 districts); MES - 1.02%, 57, 682 (15 districts); UDP - 0.79%, 44,546 (10 districts); FECML (Communist Electoral Front-Marxist-Leninist) -0.57%, 32, 508 (12 districts); PUP - 0.23%, 12,494 (7 districts). As for the parties of the bourgeoisie, their results were as follows: PPD (Popular Democratic party) - 26.38%, 1, 494, 5 (22 districts); CDS (Democratic and Social Center) -7.65%, 433, 153 (21 districts); PPM (Popular Monarchist party) - 0.56%, 31,809 (14 district).
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