Carlos Mota Pinto

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Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto (  [ ˈkaɾluʃ aɫˈbɛɾtu dɐ ˈmɔtɐ ˈpĩtu ] ; born July 25, 1936 in Pombal , † May 7, 1985 in Coimbra ) was an important Portuguese lawyer and politician . From 1978 to 1979 he was Prime Minister of his country. Please click to listen!Play

Carlos Mota Pinto taught law at the University of Coimbra and the Catholic University of Portugal . He has made a name for himself as the author of a number of legal books.

Career

After the Carnation Revolution , along with Francisco Sá Carneiro and Francisco Pinto Balsemão, he was one of the co-founders of the conservative People's Democratic Party (PPD), today's Social Democratic Party (PSD) , for which he was elected to the Constituent Assembly and the first freely elected parliament after the revolution has been. He entered the first government of Mário Soares as Minister of Commerce and Tourism.

In the first free parliamentary elections on April 25, 1976, the Socialist Party of Mário Soares had become the strongest faction, but had not won a majority of its own. Soares therefore initially headed a minority government , and since December 1977 he has governed with a coalition of socialists and CDS . This coalition also broke up due to internal differences between the partners. President Eanes dismissed Soares as prime minister and appointed politically independent governments. The first of these governments, led by Alfredo Nobre da Costa, failed. Eanes has now appointed Monta Pinto as the new Prime Minister.

Mota Pinto's government, too, was granted only a short term in office due to the lack of a stable parliamentary majority. Just nine months after taking office, he had to hand over the government to Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo . This led the business until the early elections.

Mota Pinto temporarily estranged himself from his party because of the opposition to Sá Carneiro , who was increasingly becoming the decisive figure within the PSD. Nevertheless, he became deputy chairman of the PSD and, after the PSD's defeat in the elections of April 25, 1983, even chairman for a short time.

In the 1983 elections, the Socialists had become the strongest party, but had again failed to gain a majority. Mário Soares , who became Prime Minister for the second time, managed to forge a grand coalition of his socialists and the PSD. Carlos Mota Pinto joined this government as Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister.

Against the policies of the grand coalition led by Mota Pinto and the former Prime Minister Pinto Balsemão , resistance soon arose within their own party, the Social Democrats, led by Aníbal Cavaco Silva .

At the party congress of the PSD in Figueira da Foz , these differences within the PSD between supporters (Pinto Balsemão and Mota Pinto) and opponents (Cavaco Silva) of the grand coalition with the socialists should be voted on. Carlos Mota Pinto , however, did not live to see the result of this clarification, as he died only a few days before the party congress. At the party congress, Cavaco Silva was elected as the new chairman of the PSD. He dissolved the coalition with the socialists, the following new elections won the PSD, so that Cavaco Silva became the new Prime Minister.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Alfredo Nobre da Costa Prime Minister of Portugal
1978–1979
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo