Junta de Salvação Nacional

The Junta de Salvação Nacional (German: Junta of National Rescue ) was a group of Portuguese officers who maintained the state after the coup of the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, which replaced the Estado Novo .

The junta existed from 1974 to 1976, following a statement made by President António de Spínola at 1:30 a.m. on April 26, 1974. It was already included in the program of the Movimento das Forças Armadas to exercise political power in the form of a civil government and to carry out the immediate change of office in the presidency - by the then incumbent Admiral Américo Tomás ; this included the dissolution of the Assembleia da República , the National Assembly, and the Council of State , as laid down in Constitutional Law 1/74 of April 25, 1974. President and Vice President were appointed by the junta.

• General António Sebastião Ribeiro de Spínola , President
• General Francisco da Costa Gomes
• Brigadier Jaime Silvério Marques ( Army )
• General Manuel Diogo Neto (residing in Mozambique )
• Colonel Carlos Galvão de Melo ( Air Force )
• Lieutenant Captain José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo
• Frigate Captain António Rosa Coutinho (the "red Rosa", High Commissioner for Angola )

The offices of President of the Republic of Portugal were held on an interim basis from April 26 to May 15, 1974, the date when the President of the Junta Spínola was inaugurated as Head of State-designate, and that of Prime Minister, from April 26 to May 16, 1974. May, which then Adelino da Palma Carlos took over.

Web links

• Decree No. 204/74 (PDF file; 637 kB)