It is not a dictatorship, at worst it is authoritarian, and at best a it is broken democracy.
Some parts of the government are better, some are worse.
Even back home in Portugal, I fear that when my generation is gone, the one that still felt how it used to be part of one is gone, newer ones will eventually repeat the errors of the past.
1923 goverment was seen as a liberation one that actually fixed things, but that was in the early years.