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Figure · 1889–1970
António de Oliveira Salazar
Portuguese dictator
Economics professor in power from 1932 to 1968: he founded the Estado Novo, an authoritarian, corporatist and Catholic regime, with a political police and colonial wars in Africa.
«God, Fatherland and Family.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, António de Oliveira Salazar sits in the far right camp. The clearest positions are on state: strongly towards “authority”; society: strongly towards “tradition”; justice: strongly towards “tough on crime”; sovereignty: strongly towards “sovereignty”. On economy and environment it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is religious integralism (97%).
Position on the 13 axes
António de Oliveira SalazarYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
Religious integralismThe Devout97%TraditionalismThe Temple Guardian94%Authoritarian nationalismThe Strongman92%Closest parties in Europe
Prawo i SprawiedliwośćPoland90%
Elliniki LysiGreece85%
VoxSpain83%
Fratelli d'ItaliaItaly82%Similar figures
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