Fifty Years Ago on Tuesday the Azores Swore In a Government of Their Own, and the Argument It Started Is Still About Money
The first Azorean government took office on 8 September 1976, four days after the assembly elected that June, under a 33-year-old Mota Amaral. Fifty years on the design has held and the funding has not, and a working group has eighteen months to rewrite the regional finances law.
