António Borges Coutinho
| António Borges Countinho | |
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| Civil Governor of the Autonomous District of Ponta Delgada |
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In office 21 August 1974 – 6 June 1975 |
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| Preceded by | António Joaquim da Fonseca |
| Succeeded by | - |
| Constituency | Autonomous District of Ponta Delgada |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
António Eduardo Borges Coutinho de Medeiros May 3, 1923 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | February 3, 2011 (aged 87) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Citizenship | Portuguese |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Political party | Oposição Democrática (MDP/CDE) |
António Borges Coutinho GOL (3 May 1923, in Lisbon – 3 February 2011, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician.
António Eduardo Borges Coutinho de Medeiros was born in Lisbon on 3 May 1923, the second son of the third Marquis of Praia e Monforte. He was the youngest brother of Duarte Borges Coutinho, who was president of sports club S.L. Benfica.
He obtain his degree in Law, from the Faculty of Law, at the University of Coimbra in 1948, but was not associated with the Democratic Opposition during his university career.
In 1950, he settled in São Miguel, becoming an intern with lawyer Carlos Bettencourt. His political indoctrination and ideology was influenced by the socialist António Sérgio and theories of Agostinho da Silva. During a difficult political era, he was the unique member of the District Commission to support the presidential candidacy of General Humberto Delgado, in 1958, obtaining 4.8% of the votes in the district of Ponta Delgada.
He was imprisoned in 1961, after trying to alert public opinion to the true significance of the caso Santa Maria, through inscriptions on walls. It was at this time that he became a member of the district Oposição Democrática, along with Melo Antunes, during the thaw in Marcelista spring of 1969.
He became a member of the CDE in the National Assembly, for the district of Ponta Delgada, in 1969, along with Manuel Barbosa and João Silvestre Pacheco (obtaining 22.2% of the votes, the best results for an opposition, candidates). He was a candidate in 1973 election, but the list of candidates were disqualified due to irregularities.
He was selected to be Civil Governor of the Autonomous District of Ponta Delgada, following the Carnation Revolution (25 April 1974). He took office on 21 August 1974, succeeding the Madeirense Augusto Branco Camacho, who had been in the post since 1950.
In January 1975, he joined the Grupo dos Onze (Group of 11), with elements of the PPD, PS and MDP/CDE, who developed an autonomy project for the Azores, presupposing the Junta Regional.
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