Francisco Sá Carneiro
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His Excellency Francisco Sá Carneiro GCTE, GCC, GCL |
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109th Prime Minister of Portugal Elections: 1976, 1979, 1980 |
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In office 3 January 1980 – 4 December 1980 (11 months and 1 day) |
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| President | António Ramalho Eanes |
| Deputy | Diogo Freitas do Amaral |
| Preceded by | Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Pinto Balsemão |
| President of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 29 April 1979 – 4 December 1980 |
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| Secretary– General |
Amândio de Azevedo (1979) António Capucho (1979–80) |
| Preceded by | José Menéres Pimentel |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Pinto Balsemão |
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In office September 1975 – 22 January 1978 |
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| Secretary– General |
Joaquim Magalhães Mota (1976–78) |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | António Sousa Franco |
| Secretary–General of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 6 May 1974 – May 1975 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Emídio Guerreiro |
| Adjunct Minister of the Prime Minister | |
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In office 17 May 1974 – 17 July 1974 |
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| Prime Minister | Adelino da Palma Carlos |
| Preceded by | Mario Morais de Oliveira |
| Succeeded by | António de Almeida Santos |
| Minister without Portfolio | |
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In office 16 May 1974 – 17 July 1974 |
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| Prime Minister | Adelino da Palma Carlos |
| Preceded by | Francisco Pereira de Moura |
| Succeeded by | Ernesto Melo Antunes |
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19 July 1934 Porto, Portugal |
| Died | 4 December 1980 (aged 46) Camarate, Loures, Portugal |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Democratic Alliance (coalition when Prime Minister; 1979–80) Liberal Wing (1968–73) |
| Spouse(s) | Isabel Sá Carneiro (separated) |
| Domestic partner | Snu Abecassis |
| Children | Francisco Isabel Maria Maria Teresa José Pedro |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Religion | Catholic |
Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro, GCTE, GCC, GCL (Portuguese: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku sa kɐɾˈnɐjɾu]; 19 July 1934 – 4 December 1980) founded the Portuguese Social Democratic Party in 1974 (the year of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution) and became Prime Minister of Portugal in January 1980, but only held office for eleven months, dying in a plane crash with his partner, "Snu" Abecassis (born Ebba Merethe Seidenfaden), on 4 December 1980. A parliamentary inquiry said in 2004 that there was evidence of a bomb in the aircraft, after a 1995 inquiry had concluded there was evidence of sabotage.
Sá Carneiro was born in Porto, Vitória, the third of the five children of lawyer José Gualberto Chaves Marques de Sá Carneiro (born 31 August 1897 in Barcelos) and wife Maria Francisca Judite Pinto da Costa Leite (born 29 March 1908) of the Counts of Lumbrales in Spain.
A lawyer by training, Sá Carneiro became a member of the puppet National Assembly in 1969 and, in turn, one of the leaders of the "Liberal Wing" which attempted to work for the gradual transformation of António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorship into a Western European democracy.
In May 1974, a month after the Carnation Revolution, Sá Carneiro founded the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), together with Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, Carlos Mota Pinto, João Bosco Mota Amaral, Alberto João Jardim, António Barbosa de Melo and António Marques Mendes, and became its secretary-general. The PPD was soon renamed the Social Democratic Party (PSD); despite Sá Carneiro's original claims to be leading a left-of-centre party, he and the party soon drifted to the right. He was minister without portfolio in a number of provisional governments, and was elected as a deputy to the Constitutional Assembly the next year.
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