José de Castro

José Ribeiro de Castro (born April 7, 1868 in Valhelhas , a municipality in the Guarda district , † July 31, 1929 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese lawyer , journalist and politician . From May 17 to December 29, 1915 he was head of government of his country.

Life

José Ribeira de Castro, often just called José de Castro, studied law at the University of Coimbra . After completing his training, he worked as a lawyer in Lisbon and Guarda. Politically, he was originally a supporter of the constitutional monarchy and belonged to the Progressive Party , but later he became a Republican and in 1881 a member of the Republican Party . He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper O Districto de Guarda and founded the first republican newspaper in Guarda, O Povo Português .

On May 14, 1915, the so-called “dictatorship of swords” , the military government of General Joaquim Pimenta de Castro , was ended by a coup by radical democratic officers close to the Democratic Party . These formed the so-called “constitutional junta ” ( Junta Constitucional ). She initially offered the office of prime minister to the leader of the Democrats, Afonso Costa . However, this refused, whereupon José de Castro became Prime Minister. Parliamentary elections were held during his reign - the old parliament had been dissolved by Joaquim Pimenta de Castro - which were won by the Democrats. Afonso Augusto da Costa became the new Prime Minister.

Web links

• Presidents, Primeministers and Ministers of the Portuguese Republic ( Memento of March 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Constitutional junta: José Norton de Matos António Maria da Silva José de Freitas Ribeiro Alfredo de Sá Cardoso Álvaro de Castro	Prime Minister of Portugal 1915	Afonso Augusto da Costa