Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto, GCC, GCIP, (; Pombal, 25 July 1936 –

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, 7 May 1985) was a

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and

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Career

He graduated as a licentiate in

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and

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in judicial sciences from the

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of the

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. He was also a

at the

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and several foreign universities. Still today, his doctrine is very influential in the Portuguese legal community, mainly in what comes to civil law. After the

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, on 25 April 1974, he helped in the foundation, jointly with

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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 Patríci ...

, Joaquim Magalhães Mota,

João Bosco Mota Amaral João Bosco Soares da Mota Amaral (born 15 April 1943, in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores) is a Portuguese politician. He served as President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal from 2002 to 2005 and President of the Autonomous Regio ...

Alberto João Jardim Alberto João Cardoso Gonçalves Jardim, Order of Christ (Portugal), GCC, Order of Infante D. Henrique, GCIH (, born 4 February 1943) is a Portuguese politician who was the President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal, from 1978 to 20 ...

António Barbosa de Melo António Moreira Barbosa de Melo, GColL (2 November 1932 – 7 September 2016) was a Portuguese lawyer, politician, and parliamentarian on several occasions. Career de Melo was born in Penafiel, Lagares in 1932. He graduated as a Licentiate a ...

and

António Marques Mendes António Joaquim Bastos Marques Mendes (30 March 1934 – 15 June 2015) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician. Background He was born in Porto, Paranhos, a son of Joaquim Marques Mendes (Fornos de Algodres, Figueiró da Granja, 3 March 1892 &nd ...

, of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD, today PSD). He was elected

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to the

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and to the Assembly of the Republic (the name of the Assembly has its origins in a Mota Pinto's proposal) for PPD. Having distanced himself from Sá Carneiro, they would reconcile (at the time of Sá Carneiro's death they both supported the same presidential candidate,

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). He would again return to the party to serve as vice-president in 1983 and President in 1984 and 1985. He was also Minister for Commerce and Tourism in the 1st Constitutional Government (1976–1977),

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of the 4th Constitutional Government between 1978 and 1979 when he was appointed by then

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António Ramalho Eanes, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Defense of the 9th Constitutional Government (the ''Central-Bloc'') from 1983 to 1985. He died suddenly during 1985, in

, days before the Congress that gave the Presidency of the party to

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 fro ...

Decorations

He was awarded with the

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es of the Order of Christ and the Order of Public Instruction.

Family

He married Maria Fernanda Cardoso Correia and had three sons: * Paulo Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto (born

, 18 November 1966), a licentiate,

and renowned

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of the

* Nuno Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto (born

, 18 September 1970), is the alternate executive director at the

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, married to Ianara Pedrosa. * Alexandre Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto (born 1971), a

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from the

of the

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and a

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, married to Joana Ferraz

References

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