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According to the Infallible Wikipedia, Salazar considered restoring the Portuguese monarchy in 1951, when the Portuguese president Óscar Carmona had died. The law exiling the royal family had been repealed a couple of years earlier and the pretender (Duarte Nuno, the Duke of Braganza) had returned to live in the country.

He eventually decided against it, but what if he didn't?

Would the Portuguese monarchy survive the eventual end of the Estado Novo? After all, its Spanish counterpart did. Would this have an effect on the OTL breakup of the Portuguese Empire, perhaps smoothing it into more of a commonwealth structure, leading to an earlier CPLP with teeth? After all, in OTL the Braganza pretenders have been active in supporting the interests of former Portuguese colonies, mainly in East Timor's struggle for independence from Indonesia.

Thoughts?
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