Integralismo Lusitano

"Integralismo Lusitano" (IL, "Lusitanian Integralism") is a Portuguese political movement advocating traditionalism, opposed to conservatism, founded in Coimbra in 1914, and especially active during the Portuguese First Republic. It is also against parliamentarism, pro-decentralization, syndicalist, highly Roman Catholic, and monarchist.

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

IL'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 Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista, and an opponent of António de Oliveira Salazar and the Estado Novo). The leadership remained active during the 1917-1918 rule of Sidónio Pais ("Sidonismo"), to which it showed itself favorable, and backed the Ditadura Nacional established by the May 28 1926 coup d'état. When Dom Manuel died without heirs in 1932, IL gathered all monarchist movements behind Dom Miguel and his descendents.

ee also

*Action Française
*Brazilian Integralism
*Integralism
*National Syndicalism

External links

* [http://www.lusitana.org/il_quem_somos.htm Official site] (in Portuguese)
* [http://www.lusitana.org/il_jmq_integralismo_lusitano_sintese.htm "Integralismo Lusitano - Uma Síntese", by José Manuel Quintas] (in Portuguese)