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His Excellency
Francisco Sá Carneiro
GCTE GCC GCL
His Excellency Francisco Sá Carneiro GCTE GCC GCL
Prime Minister of Portugal
	In office; 3 January 1980 – 4 December 1980
President	António Ramalho Eanes
Deputy	Diogo Freitas do Amaral
Preceded by	Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
Succeeded by	Francisco Pinto Balsemão
President of the Social Democratic Party
	In office; 2 July 1978 – 4 December 1980
Secretary-General	Amândio de Azevedo; António Capucho
Preceded by	José Menéres Pimentel
Succeeded by	Francisco Pinto Balsemão
	In office; 31 October 1976 – 11 November 1977
Secretary-General	Joaquim Magalhães Mota
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	António de Sousa Franco
Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party
	In office; 28 September 1975 – 31 October 1976
Preceded by	Emídio Guerreiro
Succeeded by	Joaquim Magalhães Mota
	In office; 24 November 1974 – 25 May 1975
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Emídio Guerreiro
Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister
	In office; 17 May 1974 – 17 July 1974
Prime Minister	Adelino da Palma Carlos
Preceded by	Mário Morais de Oliveira
Succeeded by	António de Almeida Santos
Minister without Portfolio
	In office; 16 May 1974 – 17 July 1974
Prime Minister	Adelino da Palma Carlos
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Ernesto Melo Antunes; Joaquim Magalhães Mota; Vítor Alves
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
	In office; 13 November 1980 – 4 December 1980
Constituency	Lisbon
	In office; 2 June 1975 – 12 November 1980
Constituency	Porto
Member of the National Assembly
	In office; 25 November 1969 – 25 January 1973
Constituency	Porto
Personal details
Born	19 July 1934; Vitória, Porto, Portugal
Died	4 December 1980 (aged 46); Camarate, Loures, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic (1974–1980)
Other political; affiliations	Democratic Alliance (1979–1980); Liberal Wing (1968–1973)
Spouse	Isabel Nunes de Matos (m. 1957)
Domestic partner	Snu Abecassis (1976–1980)
Children	5
Alma mater	University of Lisbon
Signature

Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro GCTE GCC GCL (Portuguese: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku sa kɐɾˈnɐjɾu] ^ⓘ; 19 July 1934 – 4 December 1980) was a Portuguese politician, who was one of the founders and the first leader of the Social Democratic Party (then known as the Popular Democratic Party). He served as Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months during 1980, until his death in a plane crash in Camarate on 4 December 1980.

Background

Sá Carneiro was born in Vitória, Porto, the fifth of the eight children^[1] of lawyer José Gualberto Chaves Marques de Sá Carneiro (1897–1978) and Maria Francisca Judite Pinto da Costa Leite (1908–1989) of the Counts of Lumbrales in Spain.^{[citation needed]}

Career

A lawyer by training, Sá Carneiro became a member of the National Assembly in 1969^[2] and, in turn, one of the leaders of the "Liberal Wing" (Ala Liberal) which attempted to work for the gradual transformation of Marcelo Caetano's dictatorship into a Western European liberal democracy.

In May 1974, a month after the Carnation Revolution, Sá Carneiro founded the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), together with Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, Carlos Mota Pinto, João Bosco Mota Amaral, Alberto João Jardim, António Barbosa de Melo and António Marques Mendes, and became its secretary-general. The PPD was soon renamed the Social Democratic Party (PSD); despite Sá Carneiro's original claims to be leading a left-of-centre party, he and the party soon drifted to the right, becoming the country's main centre-right force. He was minister without portfolio in a number of provisional governments, and was elected as a deputy to the Constitutional Assembly the next year.

In 1976, he was elected to the Assembly of the Republic. In November 1977, he resigned his office as president of the party, only to be reelected to that office the next year.

In the general election of late 1979, he led the Democratic Alliance, a coalition of his Social Democratic Party, the right-wing Democratic and Social Centre Party, and two smaller parties, to victory. The Alliance polled 45.2 percent of the popular vote and gained 128 of the 250 seats in the Assembly of the Republic; 75 of these were from the PSD. President António Ramalho Eanes subsequently called on him to form a government on 3 January 1980, and formed Portugal's first majority government since the Carnation Revolution of 1974. In a second general election held in October that year, the Democratic Alliance increased its majority. The Alliance received 47.2 percent of the popular vote and 134 seats, 82 of them from the PSD. Sá Carneiro's triumph appeared to augur well for the presidential election two months later, in which Sá Carneiro was supporting António Soares Carneiro (no relation).

Death

*Francisco de Sá Carneiro*, by Patrick Swift, 1980; Following his election Sá Carneiro commissioned Swift to paint his portrait

His victory was short-lived, however. On 4 December 1980, while on his way to a presidential election rally in Porto, the Cessna 421 he was on crashed into a building in Camarate, Loures, soon after takeoff from Lisbon Airport. Eyewitnesses claimed they saw pieces falling from the plane just moments after it took off. Rumours have continued to fuel conspiracy theories that the crash was in fact an assassination, but no firm evidence has come to light. There were even different theories as to who might have been the target of such an assassination, as Francisco de Sá Carneiro was travelling with the Defence Minister, Adelino Amaro da Costa, who had said he had documents relating to the October surprise conspiracy theory and was planning on taking them to the United Nations General Assembly. A parliamentary inquiry said in 2004 that there was evidence of a bomb in the aircraft,^[3]^[4] after a 1995 inquiry had concluded there was evidence of sabotage.^[5]

Dependent to a considerable extent on Sá Carneiro's personal popularity, the Democratic Alliance was unable to maintain its momentum in the wake of his death. Faced with a national crisis, the public rallied behind the incumbent president, António Ramalho Eanes, who easily defeated the Alliance candidate in the presidential election a few days later.

The Pedra Rubras airport where Sá Carneiro was heading has been named after him as Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport, in 1990, despite objections^{[by whom?]} that it would be in bad taste to name an airport after someone who died in a plane crash.

Family

He was married on 13 May 1957, in Miragaia, Porto, to Isabel Maria Ferreira Nunes de Matos (1 October 1936, Miragaia, Porto), and had five children:

Francisco Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (12 March 1958, Cedofeita, Porto), unmarried and without issue
Isabel Maria Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (7 July 1959, Cedofeita, Porto), unmarried and without issue
Maria Teresa Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (11 August 1961, Cedofeita, Porto), had two sons:
- Francisco de Sá Carneiro e Nogueira (1986, Santo Ildefonso, Porto)
- Lourenço de Sá Carneiro e Nogueira (1988, Santo Ildefonso, Porto)
José Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (1 April 1963, Cedofeita, Porto), married on 8 September 1991, in Luso, Mealhada, Isabel Maria Guedes de Macedo Girão (25 January 1965, Ramalde, Porto), and had an only daughter:
- Inês de Macedo Girão de Sá Carneiro (21 March 1992, Santo Ildefonso, Porto)
Pedro Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (12 September 1964, Cedofeita, Porto), married to Maria Benedita de Matos Chaves Pinheiro Torres (28 May 1967), of the Barons of Torre de Pero Palha, and had an only daughter:
- Maria Teresa Pinheiro Torres de Sá Carneiro (17 August 2000, Porto)

Later in life he lived together with Snu Abecassis, who died in the same accident as Sá Carneiro.

Ideological assessment and legacy

Sá Carneiro started his political life in the youth of the Acção Católica (the Portuguese Catholic Action), being his first activity in civic life to write a letter to Marcelo Caetano requesting the return of the António Ferreira Gomes, the exiled pro-democracy bishop of Oporto.^[6] He probably had links with the Catholic syndicalist organizations and Christian socialism in general. He was very influenced by Catholic personalism^[7] and humanism (especially its Christian version).

Sá Carneiro tried to adapt the social-democratic ideas of the likes of Eduard Bernstein and the post-1945 SPD to the cultural context of Portugal^[8] and its traditionally Catholic society. The Godesberg Program had a very important influence in his social democratic thought as it became the model for his party and its cut with Marxist socialism.

Despite having an anti-collectivist and anti-statist party with an emphasis on personal rights and duties that was responsible for privatizing the industrial sectors nationalized during the revolutionary period,^[9] he increased social spending during his term,^[10] supported land reform and its redistribution in Alentejo^[11] and he was proud that his party had been adopted by the working, middle-class blue-collar worker and middle-low class workers and that his party defended "the construction of a socialist society in liberty".^[12] Due to all these specificities, he called his party's ideology "Portuguese Social Democracy".

He was recognized as populist by supporters^[13] and opponents,^[14] as well as neutral analysts.^[15]

Works

Sá Carneiro was the author of various works, among them:

Uma Tentativa de Participação Política (An Attempt of Political Participation) (1973)
Por uma Social-Democracia Portuguesa (For a Portuguese Social Democracy) (1975)
Poder Civil; Autoridade Democrática e Social-Democracia (Civilian Power; Democratic Authority and Social Democracy (1975)
Uma Constituição para os Anos 80: Contributo para um Projecto de Revisão (A Constitution for the 1980s: Contribution for a Project of Revision) (1979).

Electoral history

Constituent Assembly, 1975

Ballot: 25 April 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Seats
	PS	Mário Soares	2,162,972	37.9	116
	PPD	Francisco Sá Carneiro	1,507,282	26.4	81
	PCP	Álvaro Cunhal	711,935	12.5	30
	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^[16]

Legislative election, 1976

Ballot: 25 April 1976
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/−
	PS	Mário Soares	1,912,921	34.9	107	–9
	PPD	Francisco Sá Carneiro	1,335,381	24.4	73	–8
	CDS	Diogo Freitas do Amaral	876,007	16.0	42	+26
	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^[17]

PSD leadership election, 1978

Ballot: 2 July 1978
Candidate		%
	Francisco Sá Carneiro	100.0
Turnout
Source: Congress 1978^[18]

Legislative election, 1979

Ballot: 2 December 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/−
	AD	Francisco Sá Carneiro	2,719,208	45.3	128	+13
	PS	Mário Soares	1,642,136	27.3	74	–33
	APU	Álvaro Cunhal	1,129,322	18.8	47	+7
	UDP	Mário Tomé	130,842	2.2	1	±0
	PDC	José Sanches Osório	72,514	1.2	0	±0
	Other parties		149,717	2.5	0	±0
Blank/Invalid ballots			163,714	2.7	–	–
Turnout			6,007,453	82.86	250	–13
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições^[19]

Legislative election, 1980

Ballot: 5 October 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/−
	AD	Francisco Sá Carneiro	2,868,076	47.6	134	+6
	PS	Mário Soares	1,673,279	27.8	74	±0
	APU	Álvaro Cunhal	1,009,505	16.8	41	–6
	UDP	Mário Tomé	83,204	1.4	1	±0
	POUS	Carmelinda Pereira	83,095	1.4	0	±0
	PSR	–	60,496	1.0	0	±0
	Other parties		111,078	1.8	0	±0
Blank/Invalid ballots			137,692	2.3	–	–
Turnout			6,026,395	83.94	250	±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições^[20]

Honours

Grand-Cross of the Order of Christ, Portugal (29 May 1981)^[21]
Grand-Cross of the Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of Valour, Loyalty and Merit, Portugal (7 March 1986)^[21]
Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty, Portugal (29 November 1990)^[21]

References

^ Francisco Sá Carneiro, um Documento – Parte I [Francisco Sá Carneiro, a Document – Part I] (Documentary) (in Portuguese). Event occurs at 2:29 – 2:35. Francisco was the fifth of eight siblings.
^ "Index Sa". Rulers. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
^ Associated Press, 6 December 2004, New tests indicate sabotage in 1980 air crash that killed Portuguese PM
^ "Investigative Commission: 1980 Portugal Crash Was Sabotage".
^ David Elsner, Chicago Tribune, 8 October 1995, Premier's Body Exhumed In Inquiry
^ Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:44 – 1:58
^ "X CONGRESSO da TSD – Trabalhadores Social Democratas (Social Democratic Workers)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2008. (Portuguese), p. 7: «O sindicalismo que defendemos e procuramos praticar tem esta matriz social democrata e personalista. A sociedade que queremos ajudar a construir tem neste pensamento os seus alicerces. (...) Como pensou e defendeu Francisco Sá Carneiro.» [«The syndicalism we defend and try to practice has this social democratic and personalist matrix. The society that we want to help to build has in this thought its foundations. (...) As thought and defended Francisco Sá Carneiro.»]
^ "X CONGRESSO da TSD" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2004. p. 6: «Sá Carneiro sabia que não há modelos de ideário político que se transponham mecanicamente de umas sociedades para as outras. Foi assim que, embora tomando em consideração o pensamento social democrata reformista de teóricos da Europa germânica e anglo-saxónica, concebeu um projecto de social democracia adaptado à idiossincrasia do povo português e à sua tradição histórica, tão marcada de experiência personalista.» («Sá Carneiro knew that there were not models of political ideals that transposed mechanically from some societies for the others. It was like this that, though taking in consideration the social democratic Reformist thought of the theoreticians of Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Europe, conceived a social democracy project adapted to the idiosyncrasy of the Portuguese people and to its historical tradition, so marked by the personalist experience.»)
^ Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:35 – 1:35
^ Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:56 – 2:02
^ Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:36 – 1:44
^ Popularist constants John Dewey and Francisco Sá Carneiro, 1:08 – 1:39 on YouTube
^ "Reformist Centre Popular Pan-National photos". Facebook.^{[permanent dead link‍]} (English)
^ "Textos de Francisco Sá Carneiro (Texts of Francisco Sá Carneiro), 31 da Armada blog". (Portuguese), eleventh comment: «Sá Carneiro, seria hoje um populista como Santana Lopes ou pior ainda... !! (João Jardim... !)» («Sá Carneiro, would be today a populist like Santana Lopes or even worse...!! (João Jardim...!)»)
^ "O Populismo Laranja (The Orange Populism)". 30 September 2007. (Portuguese), o António Maria blog, third paragraph: «Em primeiro lugar, porque a matriz ideológica e social do PPD-PSD é geneticamente populista, na modulação muito própria que lhe foi dada desde o início por Francisco Sá Carneiro» ("In the first place, because the ideological and social matrix of the PDP-SDP is genetically populist, in the very specific modulation that was given to it since the beginning by Francisco Sá Carneiro")
^ "Resultados AC 1975" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ "Resultados AR 1976" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ " De condicionais a ASDI ", Público, 9 September 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
^ "Resultados AR 1979" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ "Resultados AR 1980" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

External links

Part I on YouTube and II on YouTube of a version with English subtitles of the official Social Democratic Party documentary made on 25th anniversary of Sá Carneiro's death (4 December 2005)

Political offices
New office	Minister without Portfolio 1974 Served alongside: Álvaro Cunhal, Francisco Pereira de Moura	Succeeded by Ernesto Melo Antunes Joaquim Magalhães Mota Vítor Alves
Preceded by Mário Morais de Oliveira	Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister 1974	Succeeded by António de Almeida Santos
Preceded by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo	Prime Minister of Portugal 1980	Succeeded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Party political offices
New political party	Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party 1974–1975	Succeeded by Emídio Guerreiro
New office	President of the Social Democratic Party 1975–1978 1979–1980	Succeeded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Preceded by José Menéres Pimentel		Succeeded by António de Sousa Franco

[1] Francisco Sá Carneiro, um Documento – Parte I [Francisco Sá Carneiro, a Document – Part I] (Documentary) (in Portuguese). Event occurs at 2:29 – 2:35. Francisco was the fifth of eight siblings.

[rulers-2] "Index Sa". Rulers. Retrieved 16 June 2013.

[3] Associated Press, 6 December 2004, New tests indicate sabotage in 1980 air crash that killed Portuguese PM

[4] "Investigative Commission: 1980 Portugal Crash Was Sabotage".

[5] David Elsner, Chicago Tribune, 8 October 1995, Premier's Body Exhumed In Inquiry

[6] Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:44 – 1:58

[7] "X CONGRESSO da TSD – Trabalhadores Social Democratas (Social Democratic Workers)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2008. (Portuguese), p. 7: «O sindicalismo que defendemos e procuramos praticar tem esta matriz social democrata e personalista. A sociedade que queremos ajudar a construir tem neste pensamento os seus alicerces. (...) Como pensou e defendeu Francisco Sá Carneiro.» [«The syndicalism we defend and try to practice has this social democratic and personalist matrix. The society that we want to help to build has in this thought its foundations. (...) As thought and defended Francisco Sá Carneiro.»]

[8] "X CONGRESSO da TSD" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2004. p. 6: «Sá Carneiro sabia que não há modelos de ideário político que se transponham mecanicamente de umas sociedades para as outras. Foi assim que, embora tomando em consideração o pensamento social democrata reformista de teóricos da Europa germânica e anglo-saxónica, concebeu um projecto de social democracia adaptado à idiossincrasia do povo português e à sua tradição histórica, tão marcada de experiência personalista.» («Sá Carneiro knew that there were not models of political ideals that transposed mechanically from some societies for the others. It was like this that, though taking in consideration the social democratic Reformist thought of the theoreticians of Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Europe, conceived a social democracy project adapted to the idiosyncrasy of the Portuguese people and to its historical tradition, so marked by the personalist experience.»)

[9] Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:35 – 1:35

[10] Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:56 – 2:02

[11] Official PDP/SDP Sá Carneiro's death 25th Anniversary documentary II on YouTube, 1:36 – 1:44

[12] Popularist constants John Dewey and Francisco Sá Carneiro, 1:08 – 1:39 on YouTube

[13] "Reformist Centre Popular Pan-National photos". Facebook.^{[permanent dead link‍]} (English)

[14] "Textos de Francisco Sá Carneiro (Texts of Francisco Sá Carneiro), 31 da Armada blog". (Portuguese), eleventh comment: «Sá Carneiro, seria hoje um populista como Santana Lopes ou pior ainda... !! (João Jardim... !)» («Sá Carneiro, would be today a populist like Santana Lopes or even worse...!! (João Jardim...!)»)

[15] "O Populismo Laranja (The Orange Populism)". 30 September 2007. (Portuguese), o António Maria blog, third paragraph: «Em primeiro lugar, porque a matriz ideológica e social do PPD-PSD é geneticamente populista, na modulação muito própria que lhe foi dada desde o início por Francisco Sá Carneiro» ("In the first place, because the ideological and social matrix of the PDP-SDP is genetically populist, in the very specific modulation that was given to it since the beginning by Francisco Sá Carneiro")

[16] "Resultados AC 1975" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

[17] "Resultados AR 1976" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

[18] " De condicionais a ASDI ", Público, 9 September 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2022.

[19] "Resultados AR 1979" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

[20] "Resultados AR 1980" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

[OrdHonPor-21] "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

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Francisco Sá Carneiro

Background

Career

Death

Family

Ideological assessment and legacy

Works

Electoral history

Constituent Assembly, 1975

Legislative election, 1976

PSD leadership election, 1978

Legislative election, 1979

Legislative election, 1980

Honours

See also

References

External links

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