Carlos Mota Pinto

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Carlos Mota Pinto
Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 9 June 1983 – 15 February 1985
Prime Minister	Mário Soares
Preceded by	Diogo Freitas do Amaral
Succeeded by	Rui Machete
Minister of National Defence
In office 9 June 1983 – 15 February 1985
Prime Minister	Mário Soares
Preceded by	Diogo Freitas do Amaral
Succeeded by	Rui Machete
Minister of Commerce
In office 25 March 1977 – 30 January 1978
Prime Minister	Mário Soares
Preceded by	António Barreto
Succeeded by	Basílio Horta
Personal details
Born	(1936-07-25)25 July 1936 Pombal, Portugal
Died	7 May 1985(1985-05-07) (aged 48) Coimbra, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic
Spouse	Maria Fernanda Correia
Alma mater	University of Coimbra
Occupation	Jurist, professor

Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto,

Career

He graduated as a

civil law

.

After the

Soares Carneiro

). He would again return to the party to serve as vice-president in 1983 and President in 1984 and 1985.

He was also

Vice-Prime Minister

and Minister for Defense of the 9th Constitutional Government (the Central-Bloc Government) 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.

Decorations

He was awarded with the

and the Order of Public Instruction.

Family

He married Maria Fernanda Cardoso Correia and had three sons:

• Paulo Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto (born
  Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra
  ;
• Nuno Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto (born Coimbra, 18 September 1970), is the alternate executive director at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., married to Ianara Pedrosa;
• Alexandre Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto (born 1971), a
  Faculty of Law of the European University Institute of Florence and a Lawyer at Uría Menendez-Proença de Carvalho
  , married to Joana Ferraz.

References

Political offices
Preceded by Alfredo Nobre da Costa	Prime Minister of Portugal 1978–1979	Succeeded by Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo