In February 1976, a milestone in Portugal's political history was celebrated with talks between the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) and the main political parties of the time: the Social Democratic Centre (CDS), the Portuguese Democratic Movement (MDP), the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) and the Socialist Party (PS). These negotiations culminated in the signing of the second pact, which not only solidified the country's democratic transition, but also brought about significant changes in relation to the first pact, signed in 1975.

On the one hand, it changed the way the President of the Republic was elected - he was no longer elected by an electoral college made up of the MFA Assembly and the Legislative Assembly, but by universal suffrage; it also had an impact on the functions of the Revolutionary Council - it no longer had legislative powers and now had the functions of advising the President of the Republic and overseeing the constitutionality of laws.

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