Revolution Council (Portugal)

The Revolution Council (Conselho da Revolução) of Portugal, was created on 14 March 1975 by the Armed Forces Movement Assembly (Assembleia do Movimento das Forças Armadas) with the goal of achieving the objectives of that movement's program as fast as possible and to provide the Portuguese people the security, the confidence and social peace necessary for that process to be successful. It was extinct on 30 September 1982 by the first revision to the 1976 Constitution.