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1983 Portuguese Legislative Election
The 1983 Portuguese legislative election took place on 25 April. The election renewed all 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic. The last election, in October 1980 had been won by a right-wing coalition, the Democratic Alliance (AD) and Francisco Sá Carneiro had retained office as Prime Minister with an increased majority. However, Sá Carneiro, along with other important members of the coalition, died in an aircrash only two months after the election, on 4 December 1980. Such happenings caused a massive political instability and Francisco Pinto Balsemão, a senior official of the Social Democratic Party, the largest party in the Alliance, became Prime Minister. But Balsemão lacked support from such senior members of his party as Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and several ministers resigned. Moreover, the right-wing policy was criticized by the left-wing and by the trade unions, and in February 1982, the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers, with the support of the Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assembly Of The Republic (Portugal)
The Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese: ''Assembleia da República'', ), commonly referred to as simply Parliament (Portuguese: ''Parlamento''), is the unicameral parliament of Portugal. According to the Constitution of Portugal, the parliament "is the representative assembly of all Portuguese citizens". The constitution names the assembly as one of the country's organs of supreme authority. It is located in a historical building in Lisbon, referred to as '' Palácio de São Bento'' (Palace of Saint Benedict), the site of an old Benedictine monastery. The ''Palácio de São Bento'' has been the seat of the Portuguese parliaments since 1834 (Cortes until 1910, Congress from 1911 to 1926 and National Assembly from 1933 to 1974). Powers and duties of the Assembly The Assembly of the Republic's powers derive from its ability to dismiss a government through a vote of no confidence, to change the country's laws, and to amend the constitution (which requires a majority of two-thirds). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Francisco José Pereira Pinto Balsemão (; born 1 September 1937) is a Portuguese businessman, former journalist and retired politician, who served as Prime Minister of Portugal, from 1981 to 1983. Background He is the son of Henrique Patrício de Balsemão ( Guarda, Guarda, 9 September 1897 – ?) and wife (married Lisbon, 21 May 1922) Maria Adelaide van Zeller de Castro Pereira (Sintra, 11 August 1897 – 02 March 1984). Career Being a licentiate in Law from the University of Lisbon, Pinto Balsemão's pre-political career was in newspaper publishing. After working as a journalist and then as an administrator of ''Diário Popular'' (the ''People's Daily'' in English) from 1963 to 1971, he founded the ''Expresso'' magazine in 1973 and continued to direct it until 1980. He is one of top managers and owners of Impresa media group. Pinto Balsemão was Member of parliament before the revolution (1969–1973), when, together with Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Party (Portugal)
People's Party, Peoples Party or Popular Party may refer to one of the following political parties. Translations into English of the names of the various countries' parties are not always consistent, but ''People's Party'' is the most common. Current * Armenia: ** People's Party (Armenia) (current) ** People's Party of Armenia (current) * Aruban People's Party (founded 1942, nl, Arubaanse Volkspartij, links=no, pap, Partido di Pueblo Arubano, links=no, ''AVP'') * Austrian People's Party (founded 1945, (german: Österreichische Volkspartei, links=no, ''ÖVP'') * Cambodian People's Party (founded 1951, km, គណបក្សប្រជាជនកម្ពុជា, links=no, ', ''CPP'') * People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (founded 2002, french: Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie, links=no, PPRD'') * People's Party of Canada (founded 2018) * Croatia: ** Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Bloc
Central Bloc () is the name given in Portugal to the grand coalition of the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ... which ruled from 1983 to 1985, and to any potential coalition between those two parties. Politics of Portugal Coalition governments Grand coalition governments Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Socialist Party (Portugal) {{Portugal-poli-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party ( pt, Partido Socialista, , PS) is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants from the Portuguese Socialist Action ( pt, Acção Socialista Portuguesa). The PS is a member of the Socialist International, Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists, and has nine members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 9th European Parliament. It is the governing party of Portugal since the 2022 legislative election. A party of the centre-left, the PS is one of the two major parties in Portuguese politics, its rival being the Social Democratic Party (PSD), a centre-right, conservative party. The leader of the PS is António Costa, the current Prime Minister of Portugal. The party won 120 of 230 seats in the Portuguese parliament following the January 2022 election, enough to form a majority government. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vítor Crespo
Vítor is a Portuguese and Brazilian masculine given name, equivalent to Victor in English and Víctor in Spanish. Football athletes * Vítor Gonçalves (footballer, born 1896) (1896–1965), Portuguese * Vítor Silva (1909–1982), Portuguese * Vítor Guilhar (born 1913), Portuguese * Vítor Baptista (footballer, born 1920) (1920–2008), Portuguese * Vítor Campos (1944–2019), Portuguese * Vítor Gonçalves (footballer, born 1944), Portuguese * Vítor Damas (1947–2003), Portuguese * Vítor Baptista (1948–1999), Portuguese * Vítor Martins (footballer) (born 1950), Portuguese * Vítor Oliveira (1953–2020), Portuguese * Vítor Paneira (born 1966), Portuguese * Vítor Baía (born 1969), Portuguese * Vítor (footballer, born 1972), Brazilian * Vítor Pereira (footballer, born 1978), Portuguese * Vítor Hugo (born 1981), Brazilian * Vítor (footballer, born 1982), full name Cícero Vítor dos Santos Júnior, Brazilian football defender * Vítor Silva (footballer, born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramalho Eanes
Ramalho is a Portuguese surname. Ramalho may refer to: People *João Ramalho (1493–1580), Portuguese explorer *Ramalho Ortigão (1836–1915), Portuguese writer * Rosa Ramalho (1888–1977), Portuguese ceramist * José Ramalho (rower) (1901–?unknown), Brazilian rower *José Mauro Ramalho (1925–2019), Brazilian bishop * António Ramalho Eanes (born 1935), Portuguese politician * José Ramalho (volleyball) (born 1937), Brazilian volleyball player *Zé Ramalho (born 1949), Brazilian composer *Elba Ramalho (born 1951), Brazilian musician * Eliseu Ramalho (born 1952), Portuguese footballer * João Ramalho (footballer) (born 1954), Portuguese footballer *Muricy Ramalho (born 1955), Brazilian footballer and football manager *José Luiz Aguiar e Ramalho (born 1963), Brazilian handball player *Renato Ramalho (born 1967), Brazilian medley swimmer *Ramalho (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian footballer *Ramalho (footballer, born 1980), Brazilian footballer *Mariana Barbosa Ramalho (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Portugal
The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic ( pt, Presidente da República Portuguesa, ), is the head of state and highest office of Portugal. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, and their relation with the Prime Minister of Portugal, prime minister and cabinets have over time differed with the various Constitution of Portugal, Portuguese constitutions. Currently, in the Third Portuguese Republic, Third Republic, a semi-presidential system, the President holds no direct executive power, but is more than a merely ceremonial figure as is typically the case with parliamentary systems: one of his most significant responsibilities is the promulgation of all laws enacted by the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly of the Republic (parliament) or the Portuguese government, Government (an act without which such laws have no legal validity), with an alternative option to veto them (although this veto can be overcome i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Portuguese Local Elections
The Portuguese local elections of 1982 took place on 12 December. They were the third local elections in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power. The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 305 Portuguese municipalities that existed at the time, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is elected mayor, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president, this last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country. The Socialist Party finished once more on the top of the results table, increasing its share by 4%, however that was because the coalition between the two major right-wing parties, the Democratic and Social Center and the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic Alliance, did not participate in all Municipalities and Parishes, being the parties which composed it, separated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Strike
A general strike refers to a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large coalitions of political, social, and labour organizations and may also include rallies, marches, boycotts, civil disobedience, non-payment of taxes, and other forms of direct or indirect action. Additionally, general strikes might exclude care workers, such as teachers, doctors, and nurses. Historically, the term general strike has referred primarily to solidarity action, which is a multi-sector strike that is organised by trade unions who strike together in order to force pressure on employers to begin negotiations or offer more favourable terms to the strikers; though not all strikers may have a material interest in the negotiations, they all have a material interest in maintaining and strengthening the collective efficacy of strikes as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Confederation Of The Portuguese Workers
The General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (Portuguese: Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses or CGTP) is the largest trade union federation in Portugal. It was founded informally in 1970, emerged publicly after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and was legalised the following year by the National Salvation Junta The National Salvation Junta ( pt, Junta de Salvação Nacional, ) was a group of military officers designated to maintain the government of Portugal in April 1974 after the Carnation Revolution had overthrown the '' Estado Novo'' dictatorial .... Affiliates *National Union of Local Administration Workers - STAL Lisbon *Telecommunications and Audiovisual Communication Workers Union - STT Lisbon *Union of Customs Workers in Brokers and Companies Lisbon *Union of Agricultural Workers and the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Industries of Portugal - SINTAB Lisbon *Union of Technical Agents of Architecture and Engineering - SATAE Lisbon *Union of Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC, GColL, GColIH (; born 15 July 1939) is a Portuguese economist who served as the 19th president of Portugal, in office from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016. He had been previously prime minister of Portugal from 6 November 1985 to 28 October 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since António de Oliveira Salazar, and he was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is best known for leading Portugal into the European Union. Early life and career Aníbal António Cavaco Silva was born in Boliqueime, Loulé, Algarve. He was initially an undistinguished student. As a 12-year-old, he flunked at the 3rd grade of the Commercial School, and his grandfather put him working on the farm as a punishment. After returning to school, Cavaco Silva went on to become an accomplished student. Cavaco Silva then went to Lisbon, where he took a vocational educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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