António Soares Carneiro
| António Soares Carneiro OA ComI GCTE | |
|---|---|
| Soares Carneiro in 1980
Soares Carneiro in 1980
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| Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces | |
| In office 29 March 1989 – 25 January 1994 | |
| President | Mário Soares |
| Prime Minister | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Preceded by | José Lemos Ferreira |
| Succeeded by | António Carlos Fuzeta da Ponte |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 January 1928 Custóias, Matosinhos, Portugal |
| Died | 28 January 2014 (aged 86) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Party | Democratic Alliance (1980) |
| Alma mater | Portuguese Military Academy |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Portugal |
| Branch/service | Portuguese Army |
| Rank | General |
António da Silva Osório Braga Soares Carneiro,[1] OA ComI GCTE (25 January 1928 – 28 January 2014), was a Portuguese military officer. A general in the Portuguese Army, he was the governor of a southern province of Portuguese Angola during the Carnation Revolution, which deposed the Estado Novo on 25 April 1974.
In the 1980 presidential election, the right-wing Democratic Alliance, a coalition of the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic and Social Centre and the People's Monarchist Party, nominated Soares Carneiro as its candidate. Two of his leading supporters, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro (no relation) and Defence Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa died in a plane crash while heading for a rally in Porto two days before the election. Most polls suggest that the deaths did not have much influence in the result of the presidential elections since they predicted the re-election of President, General António Ramalho Eanes, who won 56% of the votes, was opposed to Soares Carneiro's 40%.
Soares Carneiro later served as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, under the presidency of Mário Soares.
Electoral history
Presidential election, 1980
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| António Ramalho Eanes | 3,262,520 | 56.4 | |
| António Soares Carneiro | 2,325,481 | 40.2 | |
| Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho | 85,896 | 1.5 | |
| Carlos Galvão de Melo | 48,468 | 0.8 | |
| António Pires Veloso | 45,132 | 0.8 | |
| António Aires Rodrigues | 12,745 | 0.2 | |
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 60,090 | – | |
| Turnout | 5,840,332 | 84.39 | |
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[3] | |||
References
- Back to citation European Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔni.u suˈaɾɨʃ kɐɾˈnɐjɾu, ɐ̃ˈtɔnju -].
- Back to citation "Morreu Soares Carneiro (in Portuguese)". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
- Back to citation "Resultados PR 1980" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
External links
- General António Soares Carneiro Profile Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine