Cabinet Cavaco Silva II

Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva

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

Cavaco Silva II cabinet - August 17, 1987–31. October 1991

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

1. ↑ ^{a b} All data according to the website of the National Electoral Commission (Comissão Nacional de Eleições)