Can Portugal keep their monarchy?

Is there anyway for portugal to keep their monarchy? The POD can be any time after 1880.
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I suppose we should start with the low hanging fruit, i.e. what Wikipedia tells us caused the revolution that ended the monarchy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_October_1910_revolution
  1. Subjugation of the country to British colonial interests
  2. Royal family's expenses,
  3. Power of the Church
  4. Political and social instability
  5. System of alternating power of the two political parties (Progressive and Regenerador),
  6. João Franco's dictatorship
  7. An apparent inability to adapt to modern times
  8. The Republican Party presented itself as the only one that had a programme that was capable of returning to the country its lost status and place Portugal on the way of progress.
Deal with the worst of these eight and you'll probably still have the monarchy today.
 
Salazar seriously considered restoring the monarchy in the 1950s,with the idea of grooming an heir in the vein of Franco. The only reason he didn't do it was because Prince Duarte Nuno refused him.
Just have him say yes and the monarchy is restored (although whether or not it survives the fall of Estado Novo is an open question).
 
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Salazar seriously considered restoring the monarchy in the 1950s, the only reason he didn't do it was because Prince Duarte Nuno refused him.
Just have him not say no and the monarchy is restored (although whether or not it survives the fall of Estado Novo is an open question).

This. The First Republic that replaced the monarchy was a wreck, beset by an agenda that many of the rural population didn't want. Someone from Portugal can correct me, but based on what I've read it's not looked on fondly (some of its aspects like the flag have been kept). Have Salazar pull a Franco with the Duke of Braganza as his successor and it would probably work. The present Duke, Duarte Pio, is more conservative than Juan Carlos was, but is still respected (especially internationally in places like East Timor) and his wedding was considered such a significant event that I remember watching clips of it here in the US on Spanish TV stations.
 
I suppose we should start with the low hanging fruit, i.e. what Wikipedia tells us caused the revolution that ended the monarchy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_October_1910_revolution
  1. Subjugation of the country to British colonial interests
  2. Royal family's expenses,
  3. Power of the Church
  4. Political and social instability
  5. System of alternating power of the two political parties (Progressive and Regenerador),
  6. João Franco's dictatorship
  7. An apparent inability to adapt to modern times
  8. The Republican Party presented itself as the only one that had a programme that was capable of returning to the country its lost status and place Portugal on the way of progress.
Deal with the worst of these eight and you'll probably still have the monarchy today.
Number 2 was more like the slander from the Republican opposition (freedom of press was strong enough that it was allowed to insult the Crown), and number 3 was not a real issue (the later stage of the monarchy was very hostile to the Church, the republicans were even more hostile to it, essentially for ideological reasons, and not due to any real power).
The First Republic that replaced the monarchy was a wreck, beset by an agenda that many of the rural population didn't want. Someone from Portugal can correct me, but based on what I've read it's not looked on fondly (some of its aspects like the flag have been kept).
This is very much true. The First republic was a mockery of democracy, based on a even more restricted franchise than the monarchy, limitations on the monarchist and catholic parties, and elections mostly fraudulent, with the occasional election vaguely resembling popular choice.
That's a reason why most parties in the third republic don't claim to be a continuation of the main parties of the first republic.
 
If anyone want a POD after the British Ultimatum, the avoidance of the João Franco dictatorship*, might avoid the erosion of support among many previously monarchist people, and buy some time for the monarchy, but there would have to be a string of competent governments to avoid instability when a major economic depression occurs, and to avoid entanglement in major wars (or at least reduce it to minor participation in side theatres of such wars). And the franchise would have to be extended so that more people feel they can be represented in the system. Even this might not be enough.
The best POD is avoiding the British Ultimatum, and/or before that, reforming parliamentary politics, with a larger franchise, fighting against the political machines that bought votes in the countryside, and straightening parliament over the king, so that the king becomes more like in the UK, instead of a "semi-presidential" monarchy, like it was.

*It was not very dictatorial, but rule without parliament angered many notables at the time.
 
Salazar is not going to restore the monarchy. While he did flirt with the idea in order to gain the support of some of the more conservative elements of Portuguese society, it soon became clear that he actually held strong republican tendencies.

If you're looking for a post-1910 restoration (which is not, I think, what the OP is asking for) I suggest you look into the 1919 attempt, which came during a particularily unstable period of the already-unstable First Republic and actually managed to gain consirable popular support in the beggining.

Now, if what we want is a way of making the original monarchy survive, most of its problems are very hard to solve within the given time-frame. I have mixed feelings about averting the Lisbon regicide, for while its true that it contributed to discredit the monarchy, it also put Manuel II in the throne, who was by far a much better king than his father and ended the João franco dictatorship. However, I do think we have a very interesting option here:

The Republican Party presented itself as the only one that had a programme that was capable of returning to the country its lost status and place Portugal on the way of progress.

During Manuel's short reign, the young king actually sought an alliance with the Portuguese socialists against the Republican Party, believing they were opposed to the regime not on ideological grounds but for the sake of worker's rights and people's livelihood. He believed that they could be led to support a worker's friendly monarchy against a burgeois republican movement. I always wondered wheather he could have succeeded at this...
 
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