Cabinet Cavaco Silva III

Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva

As Cabinet Cavaco Silva III , the 12th constitutional, freely elected Portuguese government after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 under Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva called, in Portugal and XII Governo Constitucional de Portugal to German XII. called the constitutional government of Portugal. The cabinet was in office from October 31, 1991 to October 28, 1995.

Parliamentary elections 1995

In the parliamentary elections on October 6, 1991 , the Portuguese Social Democrats (PSD) again won an absolute majority, they received 50.6 percent of the vote and thus 135 of the 230 seats in the Assembleia da República . This enabled the Social Democrats under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva to continue their sole government.

The other parties achieved significantly lower results: the socialists improved to 29.13% (72 seats), the CDU list connection lost 3.34% and came to 8.8% (17 seats), the Christian-conservative CDS-PP was able to hold at a good 4.4% (5 mandates). The Partido da Solidariedade Nacional moved into parliament for the first time with one member (1.68%).

The leading candidate for the Portuguese Social Democrats, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, was sworn in on October 31, 1991.

composition

Cavaco Silva III cabinet - October 31, 1991 to October 28, 1995

Office	Surname	Political party
prime minister	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Psd
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Assistant to the Minister	Luís Marques Mendes	Psd
	Antonio Couto dos Santos	Psd
Minister of the Interior	Manuel Dias Loureiro	Psd
Minister of Agriculture	António Duarte Silva	Psd
	Arlindo Cunha	Psd
Minister of Defense	Fernando Nogueira	Psd
	António Figueiredo Lopes	Psd
Minister of Education	Diamantino Durão (until December 7, 1993)	k. A.
	António Couto dos Santos (December 7, 1993 to October 28, 1995)	Psd
	Manuela Ferreira Leite	Psd
Minister for Industry and Energy	Luís Mira Amaral	Psd
Minister of Justice	Álvaro José Brilhante Laborinho Lúcio	Psd
Minister for Presidential Affairs	Fernando Nogueira	Psd
Minister of Health	Paulo Mendo	Psd
	Arlindo de Carvalho	Psd
Minister of Finance	Jorge Braga de Macedo	Psd
	Eduardo Catroga	Psd
Minister for Public Works, Transport and Communication	Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral	Psd
Minister for the Environment	Teresa Patrício Gouveia	Psd
	Carlos Borrego	independent
Minister for Commerce and Tourism	Fernando Faria de Oliveira	Psd
Minister for Labor and Social Security	José Falcão e Cunha	Psd
	José Silva Peneda	Psd
Minister for Marine Affairs	Eduardo Azevedo Soares	Psd
	António Duarte Silva	Psd
Minister for Planning and Property Management	Luís Valente de Oliveira	Psd
Minister for Foreign Affairs	João de Deus Pinheiro	Psd
	José Manuel Barroso	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)