ABSTRACT
In May 2007, Antonio Jose de Brito, Portugal’s most renowned fascist intellectual, bitterly defined the national radical right as ‘residual’, part of ‘folklore’ (Brito 2007). It has, in fact, proved itself incapable of conquering space in the young Portuguese democracy’s institutional political life, just as in Spain and Greece, where the legacy of authoritarianism has also proved fatal (Casals 1998: 143–47). The tactics chosen by the Portuguese radical right during the period of democratic consolidation have also shown themselves to be significant in respect of its current marginalization.
