Cabinet Mota Pinto

As Cabinet Mota Pinto , the fourth constitutional is Portuguese government after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 under Prime Minister Carlos Mota Pinto referred, in Portugal's government also IV Governo Constitucional de Portugal to German "IV. constitutional government of Portugal ”.

The government under Nobre da Costa , which had previously been in power for a short time , could not find a majority for the government program it had drawn up in the Assembleia da República , so that it was not possible to continue to govern. As a result, President António Ramalho Eanes was looking for a new candidate as Portuguese Prime Minister. After a short search, Eanes nominated the lawyer Carlos Mota Pinto , who already held the office of Minister of Commerce in the first government under Soares and was one of the founders of the Portuguese Social Democrats . As a Portuguese Social Democrat, he formed an equally conservative government, which was officially sworn in on August 29, 1978 in the Portuguese Parliament.

The style of government practiced by Mota Pinto in the months that followed was generally described as authoritarian, which in turn provoked criticism not only from left parties such as the communists and socialists, but also from his party itself, the social democrats. The first problems arose when the budget was approved, for which Mota Pinto could not find a majority in parliament. After two votes of no confidence, requested by both the communist and socialist parties, President Eanes decided to dismiss the Mota Pinto government in June 1979. The government ruled from November 22, 1978 to July 7, 1979, about seven months.

composition

Mota Pinto Cabinet - November 22, 1978 to July 7, 1979

Office	Surname	Political party
prime minister	Carlos Mota Pinto	Psd
Assistant to the Prime Minister with the rank of Minister	Álvaro Monjardino	Psd
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	João de Freitas Cruz	k. A.
Ministry of Defense	José Loureiro dos Santos	k. A.
Ministry of Internal Administration	António Gonçalves Ribeiro	k. A.
Ministry of Justice	Eduardo Silva Correia	k. A.
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning	Manuel Jacinto Nunes	k. A.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	Apolinário Vaz Portugal	k. A.
Ministry of Industry and Technology	Álvaro Barreto	Psd
Ministry of Commerce and Tourism	Abel Repolho Correia	k. A.
Ministry of Labor	Eusebio Marques de Carvalho	k. A.
Ministry of Education and Research	Luís Valente de Oliveira	Psd
Ministry of Social Affairs	Acácio Pereira Magro	k. A.
Ministry of Transport and Communications	José Marques da Costa	k. A.
Ministry of Housing and Public Works	João Almeida Pina	k. A.
Ministry of Media	Daniel Proença de Carvalho	k. A.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ José Hermano Saraiva: História de Portugal . Volume 3. Publicações Alfa publishing house, Lisbon 1983, p. 782.