 The Micalense Farmers' Protest, forced his resignation, and inspired a series of terrorist acts that plunged the Azores into political turmoil.After a round-up of arrests and detentions by the Military Governor, the Autonomous District of Ponta Delgada was extinguished, along with the other districts (Horta and Angra do Heroísmo) on 22 August 1975, with the establishment of the"Junta Regional dos Açores" ("Regional Junta of the Azores"), the provisional government that assumed the competencies of the administration during the region's transition to constitutional autonomy.With regional autonomy, the districts were completely abolished