One of these reasons - perhaps the primary one - was because there was some rather ambiguous communications with the Portuguese authorities at first and Parliament was not sure exactly what was being requested of it. ###>Une de ces raisons - peut-être la principale - est la suivante: tout d'abord, les rapports avec les autorités portugaises étaient assez ambigus et le Parlement ne savait pas exactement ce qu'on attendait de lui.