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261:. In addition, academics have published works theorizing that the efforts made by the MFA were not in the strict interest of the people of Portugal or its overseas provinces, since the movement was initiated not as an attempt to liberate Portugal from the Estado Novo, but as an attempt of rebellion against the new military laws that were to be presented the next year (
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265:). The revolution and the whole movement were a way to work against laws that would reduce military costs and would reformulate the whole Portuguese military. Younger military academy graduates resented a program introduced by
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