António Soares Carneiro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Portuguese politician
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Place of Birth: Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Guarda District, Portugal
About António Soares Carneiro
- António da Silva Osório Braga Soares Carneiro, 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 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. He died in Lisbon.
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