Integralismo Lusitano

Integralismo Lusitano (English: Lusitanian Integralism)[1] was a Portuguese integralist political movement, founded in Coimbra in 1914, that advocated traditionalism but not conservatism. It was against parliamentarism; instead, it favored decentralization, national syndicalism, the Roman Catholic Church, and the monarchy. It was especially active during the Portuguese First Republic.

Initially supportive of the last king, Dom Manuel, they nonetheless refused to back him from 1920 on, after the restoration attempts at Monsanto (Lisbon), and in the north of the country (the Monarquia do Norte). Instead, they placed their hopes in Manuel's nephew, Miguel of Braganza.

Integralismo Lusitano's notable members included António Sardinha, Alberto de Monsaraz, José Pequito Rebelo, José Hipólito Vaz Raposo, Luís de Almeida Braga, and Francisco Rolão Preto. Preto later asserted himself as leader of the National Syndicalists (Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista), and he became an opponent of António de Oliveira Salazar (and the Estado Novo party). The leadership remained active during the 1917-1918 rule of Sidónio Pais (Sidonismo), to whom it showed its support, and it backed the Ditadura Nacional, which was established by the 28 May 1926 coup d'état.

When Dom Manuel died without heirs in 1932, Integralismo Lusitano rallied all monarchist movements behind Dom Miguel and his descendents.

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  1. ^ From Lusitania, the Latin name for Portugal.