President Antonio Ramalho Eanes Name Diogo Freitas Preceded by Joao Cardoso | Preceded by Antonio Monteiro Spouse Maria Salgado (m. 1965) Prime Minister Jose Socrates Role Portuguese Politician | |
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Preceded by Francisco de Sa Carneiro(effective) Prime Minister Francisco de Sa Carneiro Parents Duarte de Freitas do Amaral Children Pedro Sarmento de Matos de Freitas do Amaral Similar People Mario Soares, Francisco de Sa Carneiro, Adelino Amaro da Costa, Adriano Moreira, Jose Socrates | ||
Organizations founded CDS – People's Party Succeeded by Francisco Pinto Balsemao | ||
Diogo freitas do amaral direito administrativo angolano nova direito 15 2 2017
Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral ([diˈoɡu ˈfɾɐjtɐʃ du ɐmɐˈɾaɫ]; b. Póvoa de Varzim, 21 July 1941), known as Freitas do Amaral, is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 March 2005 to 3 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s.
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- Diogo freitas do amaral direito administrativo angolano nova direito 15 2 2017
- Diogo freitas do amaral considera que portugal esta a caminho de uma ditadura
- Background
- Career
- Honours
- Marriage and issue
- Books
- References
Diogo freitas do amaral considera que portugal esta a caminho de uma ditadura
Background
He is 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 is 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 is also a publicist.
Currently, he is Professor in the Faculty of Law of the Lusófona University of Lisbon, where he teaches and governs 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 right-wing 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 has 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
Marriage and issue
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), a maternal grandson of the 2nd Viscount (formerly Barons) of Moimenta da Beira, and wife (m. Lisbon, 27 January 1940) Maria do Carmo Roma Machado Cardoso Salgado (Lisbon, Santa Isabel, b. 18 February 1914), a half-grand-niece of the 1st Viscount de Faria e Maia, and has four children: