The political and governmental intervention of Domingos Leite Pereira during the First Republic (1910-1926)

Abstract

Domingos Leite Pereira was one of the most important politicians of the First Republic after the First World War. In this period marked by great social difficulties and political instability, he was president of three governments and minister of ten. He fought, specially against António Maria da Silva, for the leadership of the Portuguese Republican Party (PRP), then dominant, but affected by the retreat of his historical leader Afonso Costa. He lost this fight but gained general approval of the appeasing role he plaied as president of the Chamber of Deputies, so that he was the only one able of forming a government that held First Republic last elections in 1925.