His attempts to carry out badly needed economic and social reforms met with little success, and the new constitution promulgated in February 1977 failed to quell chronic political instability.
As súas tentativas de realizar as reformas económicas e sociais necesarias tiveron pouco éxito, e a nova Constitución promulgada en febreiro de 1977 non conseguiu acabar coa inestabilidade política crónica.