Carlos Mota Pinto

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**Carlos Mota Pinto**

Prime Minister of Portugal
Order:	109th (55th of the Republic, 7th since the Carnation Revolution)
Term of Office	22 November 1978 - 1 August 1979
Predecessor:	Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Successor:	Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
Date of Birth	25 July 1936
Place of Birth:	Pombal
Date of Death	7 May 1985
Place of Death:	Coimbra
Occupation:	Professor of law
Political Party:	Social Democratic

Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto, GCC, GCIP, pron. IPA: ['kaɾluʃ aɫ'bɛɾtu dɐ 'mɔtɐ 'pĩtu], (Pombal, 25 July 1936–Coimbra, 7 May 1985) was a Portuguese professor and politician. We was graduated in Law and doctor of Judicial Sciences by the University of Coimbra. He was also a professor at the Portuguese Catholic University. Still today, and especially at Coimbra's Law faculty, his doctrine is well studied, mainly in what comes to Civil Law.

After the Carnation Revolution, in April 25, 1974, he helped in the foundation, jointly with Francisco Sá Carneiro, Francisco Pinto Balsemão and Mota Amaral, of the Democratic Popular Party (PPD, today PSD). He was elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly and to the Assembly of the Republic (the name of the Assembly has its origins in a Mota Pinto's proposal) for PPD. Later he distanced himself from Sá Carneiro. 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 Turism in the 1st Constitutional Government (1976-1977), Prime Minister of the 4th Constitutional Government between 1978 and 1979 when he was appointed by then President 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 Coimbra, days before the Congress that gave the Presidency of the party to Aníbal Cavaco Silva.

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Prime Ministers of Portugal since the Carnation Revolution (1974)
National Salvation Junta - Palma Carlos - Vasco Gonçalves - Pinheiro de Azevedo - Almeida e Costa - Mário Soares - Nobre da Costa - Mota Pinto - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo - Sá Carneiro - Freitas do Amaral - Pinto Balsemão - Mário Soares - Cavaco Silva - António Guterres - Durão Barroso - Santana Lopes - José Sócrates