Cabinet Cavaco Silva II
As Cabinet Cavaco Silva II , the 11th constitutional, freely elected Portuguese government after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 is led by Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva called, in Portugal and XI Governo Constitucional de Portugal to German XI. called the constitutional government of Portugal. The cabinet was in office from August 17, 1987 to October 31, 1991. For the first time in the democratic history of Portugal, the cabinet consisted only of members of one party, the Social Democrats, who won an absolute majority in the parliamentary elections. The cabinet was also the first to rule for a full four-year legislature.
General election 1987
In the parliamentary elections on July 18, 1987 , the Portuguese Social Democrats (PSD) won an absolute majority for the first time, they received 50.2 percent of the vote and thus 148 of the 230 seats in the Assembleia da República . With this, the Social Democrats under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva were able to continue a single social democratic government for the first time.
The other parties achieved significantly lower results: the socialists improved slightly to 22.2% (60 seats), the CDU list connection lost 3.34 percent and came to 12.1% (31 seats). The Partido Renovador Democrático, on the other hand, lost massive votes and was only able to win seven seats (at 4.9 percent), and the Christian-conservative CDS-PP also lost at the expense of the Social Democrats and won 4.4 (4 seats).
The leading candidate for the Portuguese Social Democrats, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, was sworn in on August 17, 1987.
composition
Office | Surname | Political party |
---|---|---|
prime minister | Aníbal Cavaco Silva | Psd |
Minister for Youth and Assistant to the Minister | Antonio Couto dos Santos | Psd |
Minister of the Interior | José Silveira Godinho | Psd |
Manuel Pereira | Psd | |
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | Álvaro Barreto | Psd |
Arlindo Cunha | Psd | |
Minister of Defense | Carlos Brito | Psd |
Eurico de Melo | Psd | |
Fernando Nogueira | Psd | |
Minister of Education | Roberto Carneiro | independent |
Minister for Industry and Energy | Luís Mira Amaral | Psd |
Minister of Justice | Fernando Nogueira | Psd |
Álvaro José Brilhante Laborinho Lúcio | Psd | |
Minister for Presidential Affairs | Fernando Nogueira | Psd |
Minister of Health | Leonor Beleza | Psd |
Arlindo Cunha | Psd | |
Minister of Finance | Miguel Cadilhe | Psd |
Miguel Beleza | Psd | |
Minister for Public Works, Transport and Communication | João Maria de Oliveira Martins | Psd |
Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral | Psd | |
Minister for the Environment | Carlos Borrego | independent |
Fernando Real | Psd | |
Minister for Commerce and Tourism | Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral | Psd |
Fernando Faria de Oliveira | Psd | |
Minister for Labor and Social Security | José Silva Peneda | Psd |
Minister for Planning and Property Management | Luís Valente de Oliveira | Psd |
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs | Antonio Capucho | Psd |
Manuel Dias Loureiro | Psd | |
Minister for Foreign Affairs | João de Deus Pinheiro | Psd |
Web links
- Information on the Cavaco Silva III cabinet on the Portuguese government portal portugal.gov.pt (Portuguese, partly English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b All data according to the website of the National Electoral Commission (Comissão Nacional de Eleições)