Liberato Ribeiro Pinto

Liberato Pinto 1921

Liberato Damião Ribeiro Pinto (born September 29, 1880 , † September 4, 1949 ) was a Portuguese military and politician from the time of the First Republic . From November 30, 1920 to March 2, 1921 he was Portuguese Prime Minister.

Ribeiro Pinto joined the Democratic Party in January 1915 , for which he was elected to the Portuguese parliament for the first time in 1919. From 1914 to 1922 he was also Chief of the General Staff of the Republican Guard ( Guarda Nacional Republicana ). This was an elite military unit, the officer ranks of which were provided exclusively by sympathizers of the Democrats, and which was therefore only under the control of the government to a very limited extent, at least if the government was not provided by the Democrats. The Republican Guard was a decisive power factor in the late phase of the First Republic, and Ribeiro Pinto owed his position at the top of the Guard that he was appointed head of government with the support of his predecessor Álvaro de Castro . During his time as Prime Minister he also served as Minister of the Interior and temporarily also as Minister of the Navy and Finance .

On March 2, 1921, he had to resign as head of government. Bernardino Machado , also from the Democratic Party and ex-President of the Republic, succeeded him, but this government was short-lived. From May 23, 1921, the liberal - conservative opposition ruled , so the Democrats briefly lost power. This change of government led to Ribeiro Pinto being dismissed as Chief of Staff of the Republican Guard. When the government tried to prosecute Ribeiro Pinto for allegations of corruption, the latter began a campaign with the daily newspaper O mundo, a Imprensa da Manhã, which was close to him, with daily sharp attacks on António Granjo , his successor as prime minister. These attacks created the atmosphere in which an attempted coup by the Republican Guard against the Granjo government in the " Lisbon Blood Night " on October 19, 1921 and led to the assassination of Prime Minister Granjo.

After the assassination of Prime Minister Granjo, governments close to the Democrats came to power again, but when the opposition was briefly able to take power again from December 16, 1921 ( Francisco Pinto da Cunha Leal government ), Ribeiro Pinto had to cope with allegations of corruption in January 1922 even go to jail for a short time.

As for all democratic politicians, the coup of May 26, 1926 (end of the first republic in Portugal) ended all of Ribeiro Pinto's political ambitions. He withdrew from public life as a private tutor and eventually died in very simple financial circumstances.

Web links

• Liberato Damião Ribeiro Pinto . ( Memento of February 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) June 9, 2006 Biography (Portuguese)

predecessor	Office	successor
Álvaro de Castro	Prime Minister of Portugal 1920–1921	Bernardino Machado