Ah! Then we have a misunderstanding. I was speaking about parliamentary republics with figurehead Presidents; Presidents whose role is largely to appear as an inspiring father/mother figure. Portugal, like France (and Romania and Austria and Poland) are mixed parliamentary-Presidential systems; your Presidents are not figureheads but Presidents with some real power. This is emphasized by the fact that you have them elected by the people, rather parliament or another indirectly representative body of electors. (Well OK, I am drawing a fine line here; Finland's and Slovakia's popularly elected Presidents may be called figureheads, and Portugal's may be not that much more powerful than those.)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.