Diogo Freitas do Amaral
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Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 21 July 1941 – 3 October 2019) was a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 January 1980 to 12 January 1981 and from 12 March 2005 to 3 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s, after the death of Francisco de Sá Carneiro.
Background
He was born in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, the third but first surviving son of Duarte de Freitas do Amaral and wife Maria Filomena de Campos Trocado, and the older brother of João de Freitas do Amaral.
Career
He was a Licentiate and a Doctorate in Law specialised in Administrative Law and Political Science from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and a Cathedratic Professor in the Faculty of Law at the New University of Lisbon and also a publicist.
He served as a professor in the Faculty of Law of the Lusófona University of Lisbon, where he taught and governed as the chair of the Economics of Public Law in Law degree, developing other teaching activities in the same college. In 1974, some months after the Carnation Revolution, he was one of the Founders and President of then Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a Christian democratic party. He led this party till 1985, and again from 1988 to 1991. He served as a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic (the Portuguese parliament) from 1975 to 1982 or 1983, and again in 1992 and 1993.
He was also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State (1974–1982).
In the parliamentary elections of 1979 and 1980, the Democratic Alliance (of which the CDS was a part) won a majority and formed the government, in which Freitas served as Deputy Prime Minister or Vice-Prime-Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1980 and Deputy Prime Minister or Vice-Prime-Minister and Minister of Defence between 1981 and 1983. After the death of Francisco Sá Carneiro, Freitas do Amaral was interim Prime Minister for a short period between 1980 and 1981. Between 1981 and 1982 he was also the President of the European People's Party.
He was a candidate in 1985 for the presidency in the 1986 presidential election. Supported by his own People's Party and by the Social Democratic Party, he established a commanding lead in the first round, but lost the second round by some 150,000 votes to Mário Soares, who was endorsed by the two eliminated candidates.
He was President of the United Nations General Assembly (1995–1996).
A European federalist, he left the party he founded, disagreeing mainly with the Eurosceptic line followed by Manuel Monteiro and Paulo Portas.
Always seen as a right-winger, Freitas do Amaral supported the Social Democratic Party in the parliamentary election of 2002. However, disappointed with the government performance, and critical of its support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Freitas do Amaral surprised many observers by announcing his support for the Socialist Party in the 2005 election. He was subsequently nominated for Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the XVII Constitutional Government, led by the Socialist leader José Sócrates. He resigned after a little over one year in office, citing health reasons and, as revealed to a newspaper, tiredness resulting from the many diplomatic trips taken.
He was also a Juridical Consultant of many companies.
He authored a biography of King Afonso I and a play about Viriatus.
He also published a study of the actuality and reform of the prison system in Portugal.
Honours
- File:PRT Order of Christ - Grand Cross BAR.svg Grand Cross of the Order of Christ (3 August 1983)[1]
- File:PRT Order of Saint James of the Sword - Grand Cross BAR.svg Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (9 June 2003)[1]
- File:PRT Order of Prince Henry - Grand Cross BAR.svg Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (9 June 1984)[1]
Foreign
- File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia: First Class of the Order of the White Star (29 March 2006)[1]
- File:Flag of France.svg France: Commander of National Order of Merit (27 January 2006)[1]
- File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (22 December 1980)[1]
- File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (3 November 1980)[1]
- File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (3 November 1980)[1]
Personal life
He married in Sintra, Santa Maria, on 31 July 1965 Maria José Salgado Sarmento de Matos, born in Lisbon on 13 October 1943, writer under the pseudonym Maria Roma, daughter of José Sarmento Osório de Vasconcelos de Matos (Moimenta da Beira, 28 July 1909 – Sintra, 17 July 1992). They had four children.
In September 2019, Freitas do Amaral was hospitalized in critical condition at a Cascais hospital.[2] On 3 October 2019, it was announced that Freitas do Amaral had died.[3]
Electoral history
Constituent Assembly, 1975
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PS | Mário Soares | 2,162,972 | 37.9 | 116 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PPD | Francisco Sá Carneiro | 1,507,282 | 26.4 | 81 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PCP | Álvaro Cunhal | 711,935 | 12.5 | 30 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | CDS | Diogo Freitas do Amaral | 434,879 | 7.6 | 16 |
| MDP/CDE | Francisco Pereira de Moura | 236,318 | 4.1 | 5 | |
| FSP | Manuel Serra | 66,307 | 1.2 | 0 | |
| MES | Afonso de Barros | 58,248 | 1.0 | 0 | |
| Other parties | 137,213 | 2.4 | 2 | ||
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 396,675 | 7.0 | – | ||
| Turnout | 5,711,829 | 91.66 | 250 | ||
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[4] | |||||
Legislative election, 1976
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PS | Mário Soares | 1,912,921 | 34.9 | 107 | –9 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PPD | Francisco Sá Carneiro | 1,335,381 | 24.4 | 73 | –8 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | CDS | Diogo Freitas do Amaral | 876,007 | 16.0 | 42 | +26 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PCP | Álvaro Cunhal | 788,830 | 14.4 | 40 | +10 |
| UDP | Mário Tomé | 91,690 | 1.7 | 1 | ±0 | |
| Other parties | 220,936 | 4.0 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 257,696 | 2.7 | – | – | ||
| Turnout | 5,483,461 | 83.53 | 263 | +13 | ||
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[5] | ||||||
Presidential election, 1986
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| Candidate | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | Mário Soares | 1,443,683 | 25.4 | 3,010,756 | 51.2 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | Diogo Freitas do Amaral | 2,629,597 | 46.3 | 2,872,064 | 48.8 |
| Francisco Salgado Zenha | 1,185,867 | 20.9 | |||
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo | 418,961 | 7.4 | ||
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 64,626 | – | 54,280 | – | |
| Turnout | 5,742,734 | 75.39 | 5,937,100 | 77.99 | |
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[6][7] | |||||
CDS leadership election, 1988
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Diogo Freitas do Amaral | Voice vote | |
| Turnout | 100.0 | ||
| Source: Congress 1988[8] | |||
Legislative election, 1991
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PSD | Aníbal Cavaco Silva | 2,902,351 | 50.6 | 135 | –13 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | PS | Jorge Sampaio | 1,670,758 | 29.1 | 72 | +12 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | CDU | Álvaro Cunhal | 504,583 | 8.8 | 17 | –14 |
| style="background:Template:Party color;"| | CDS | Diogo Freitas do Amaral | 254,317 | 4.4 | 5 | +1 |
| PSN | Manuel Sérgio | 96,096 | 1.6 | 1 | new | |
| PSR | Francisco Louçã | 64,159 | 1.1 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Other parties | 132,495 | 2.3 | 0 | –7 | ||
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 110,672 | 1.9 | – | – | ||
| Turnout | 5,735,431 | 67.78 | 230 | –20 | ||
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[9] | ||||||
Ancestors
Books
- D. Afonso Henriques biografia. Lisboa: Bertrand, 2009.
- Camarate: um caso ainda em aberto : apelo de um cidadão. Lisboa: Bertrand, 2010. Template:ISBN
- História do Pensamento Político Ocidental. Coimbra: Almedina, 2011. Template:ISBN
References
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- ↑ "Diogo Freitas do Amaral. "Vivi e agi à minha maneira"", Diário de Notícias, 4 October 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
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- Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal, III, 2006, Tomo IV, pp. 862–873
- Costados, Gonçalo de Mesquita da Silveira de Vasconcelos e Sousa, Livraria Esquina, 1.ª Edição, Porto, 1997, N.º 55
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