In February 1928, the Commission for the Propaganda of the Dictatorship () was created. The Police of Information of Porto and Lisbon were merged on March 17. Carmona organized a Presidential election on March 25, 1928, in which he was the only candidate. He was duly "elected" for a five-year term as president. On April 18 he appointed José Vicente de Freitas as the new Prime Minister. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was appointed Minister of Finance for the second time on April 26. The new government came to an agreement with the Catholic Church, known as the "Acordo Missionário" (Missionary Agreement), giving the church special status in Portugal's colonies. The government also closed the main offices of the Portuguese Communist Party, which was reorganised the following year under Bento Gonçalves, with the creation of a net of clandestine cells to avoid the wave of detentions, reflecting the party's new illegal status. Later that year there was another failed Republican revolutionary attempt against the government.