So and how come you Portuguese threw out the Royal House of Bragança?
Bem-vindos
Not very clever then.
me? how can a single person like me could do such thing?
I dont even recognise the green&red what you call portuguese (republican) flag as the symbol of my country, for me it will be always under blue&white.
the change to a republic was a fatal error, we lost a lot of our global influence, and we have facts of that, our monarchy was like the uk monarchy todays, the republicans after assassinated the king in his back and his son they did a Coup d'état by force imposing the republic, what followed were 16 years under pillage, media closing, priests killed, removing to hundreads of citizens (specially womans) their right of vote, and many other things, which means they did exactly the opposite they were claiming when in monarchy, then after those 16 years we had a 2º republic in a dictatorship that costs 40 years, then a 3º republic still today with the second or third time under IMF help, and people are not happy with it, some even ask for a referendum about the regime because the republic was never a choice of people but a choice of a group of people that impose the regime.
We are still paying our first presidents from the 3ºrepublic and its not cheap, one of them was caught by the police by having the driver (yes he still have a driver and a car) speed to 199mph in a motorway, he said furious to the police that the state will pay the fine, this person was also respondible for the shameful and bad descolonization abandoning the colonies in the hands of terrorists leaders.