António Soares Carneiro
António Soares Carneiro Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces | |
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| In office 29 March 1989 – 25 January 1994 | |
| President | Mário Soares |
| Prime Minister | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Preceded by | José Lemos Ferreira |
| Succeeded by | António Carlos Fuzeta da Ponte |
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| Born | 25 January 1928 Custóias, General |
António da Silva Osório Braga Soares Carneiro, 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 on 25 April 1974.
In the 1980
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.
External links
- General António Soares Carneiro Profile Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
References
- ^ Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu suˈaɾɨʃ kɐɾˈnɐjɾu])
- ^ "Morreu Soares Carneiro (in Portuguese)". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
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