Liberal Regenerator Party (Portugal)

The Liberal Party regeneration ( in Portuguese: Partido Liberal Regenerador ) was a political party in Portugal from the period of constitutional monarchy. She founded in 1901 as a splinter group of the regeneration party. Your most important politician was João Franco. Since this completely dominated the party, it is also called " Franco's party."

The beginning of the 20th century falls into one in the Portuguese domestic policy extremely busy time. Republican flows are getting stronger and threaten the already located ligands in the agony of the monarchy and the political system that had developed in Portugal since the end of Miguelistenkrieges. The Conservative Party regeneration was at this time under the dominant influence of its chairman Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro Rodolfo. The intra-party opponents whose aiming at hardening against the Republicans rallied around policy João Franco. This went so far as to support the Republican Party against the regeneration. 1901 things came to a formal break with the Franco rest of the party, he left with 25 members regeneration Party to the Liberal Party to establish regeneration.

With João Franco presented the party from 1906 to 1908 the government. After an initially liberal policy towards the Republicans, the Franco government, however, more and more radicalized, this begins authoritarian without Parliament to govern and to adopt a series of repressive measures against the Republicans. When in 1908 King Charles I a stop falls victim to the government of the Liberal party ends regeneration, as the new king, Manuel II, João Franco releases.

See also: List of Prime Minister of Portugal, Portuguese history, chronology Portugal, List of political parties in Portugal.

• Historic Party ( Portugal)
• Past Liberal Party