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Francisco de Sá Carneiro

His Excellency
Francisco Sá Carneiro
GCTE, GCC, GCL
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109th Prime Minister of Portugal
Elections: 1976, 1979, 1980
In office
3 January 1980 – 4 December 1980
(11 months and 1 day)
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
In office
29 April 1979 – 4 December 1980
Secretary–
General
Amândio de Azevedo (1979)
António Capucho (1979–80)
Preceded by José Menéres Pimentel
Succeeded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão
In office
September 1975 – 22 January 1978
Secretary–
General
Joaquim Magalhães Mota (1976–78)
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by António Sousa Franco
Secretary–General of the Social Democratic Party
In office
6 May 1974 – May 1975
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Emídio Guerreiro
Adjunct Minister of the Prime Minister
In office
17 May 1974 – 17 July 1974
Prime Minister Adelino da Palma Carlos
Preceded by Mario Morais de Oliveira
Succeeded by António de Almeida Santos
Minister without Portfolio
In office
16 May 1974 – 17 July 1974
Prime Minister Adelino da Palma Carlos
Preceded by Francisco Pereira de Moura
Succeeded by Ernesto Melo Antunes
Personal details
Born (1934-07-19)19 July 1934
Porto, Portugal
Died 4 December 1980(1980-12-04) (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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