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Portugal's parliament approves restoration of 4 public holidays

Xinhua, January 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Portuguese parliament approved Friday the restoration of four public holidays which were suspended by previous central-right coalition government in 2012.

The draft resolution presented by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the CDS-PP, parties forming the previous coalition, which proposed an evaluation on "possible changes" of the "suspension" of the holidays, was rejected in the parliament.

The four public holidays include two religious holidays, All Saints' Day and Corpus Christi, and two civil holidays, Oct. 5 and Dec. 1, marking Portugal's establishment of the republic and its independence from Spanish rule respectively.

The anti-austerity Socialist Party took power in November last year and vowed to reverse the austerity measures implemented by the previous PSD and CDS-PP coalition under the 78-billion-euro (about 85 billion U.S. dollars) bailout program Portugal signed in 2011 with international creditors. Endit