Francisco Pinto Balsemão

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Nuno Rodrigues dos Santos
Minister of Social Affairs
In office
3 August 1981 – 4 September 1981
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byJoão Morais Leitão
Succeeded byCarlos Macedo
Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister
In office
3 January 1980 – 9 January 1981
Prime MinisterFrancisco Sá Carneiro
Preceded byManuel da Costa Brás
Succeeded byBasílio Horta
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
4 November 1985 – 12 August 1987
ConstituencyLisbon
In office
3 June 1976 – 12 November 1980
ConstituencyPorto
In office
2 June 1975 – 2 April 1976
ConstituencyLisbon
Personal details
Born (1937-09-01) 1 September 1937 (age 87)
media group, chair of the european publishers council
Signature

Francisco José Pereira Pinto Balsemão (Portuguese pronunciation:

Prime Minister of Portugal
, from 1981 to 1983.

Background

Pinto Balsemão is the son of Henrique Patrício Pinto Balsemão (Guarda, 9 September 1897 – ?) and wife (married Lisbon, 21 May 1922) Maria Adelaide van Zeller de Castro Pereira (Sintra, 11 August 1897 – 2 March 1984), great-granddaughter of Pedro IV of Portugal.

Career

Being a

Expresso magazine in 1973 and continued to direct it until 1980. He is one of top managers and owners of Impresa
media group.

Pinto Balsemão was Member of parliament before the revolution (1969–1973), when, together with

Constituent Assembly, which was charged with drafting a new constitution
and served as an interim legislature. Pinto Balsemão was chosen as a Vice-President of this body.

Following the victory of the

cabinets
led by Prime Minister Sá Carneiro.

When Sá Carneiro was killed in an air accident on 4 December 1980, the Social Democratic Party chose Pinto Balsemão to succeed him. Despite his reputation for competence, he was widely perceived as lacking Sá Carneiro's charisma. He had difficulty maintaining the level of support enjoyed by his party, which had been based to a large extent on Sá Carneiro's personal popularity. He also had to cope with friction within the Democratic Alliance, and found the

Democratic and Social Centre leader, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a difficult ally. These factors contributed to his defeat in the parliamentary election
of 1983. He finally retired from Parliament in 1987 though not from politics.

Pinto Balsemão currently serves as Chairman of the European Publishers Council[1] and as chief executive officer of Impresa media group in Portugal. He was the founder on 6 October 1992 of Sociedade Independente de Comunicação (SIC), the first Portuguese private television network.

He is also a member of Steering Committee of the

Bilderberg Group
, and as such has attracted some controversy. He participated in more than 30 Bilderberg-Conferences since 1981.

He was also a Member of the

Portuguese Council of State, elected by the Assembly of the Republic and chosen by the then President of the Republic, his fellow party colleague and former president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Aníbal Cavaco Silva
.

Family

He married firstly and divorced Maria Isabel de Lacerda Pinto da Costa Lobo, daughter of Manuel da Costa Lobo Cardoso (

Banco de Angola, and wife (married Luanda, 20 October 1934) Maria Amélia de Lacerda Rebelo Pinto (Quissol, Malanje
– ?), and had two children:

  • Mónica da Costa Lobo Pinto Balsemão, married to Filipe Pereira Caldas Penaguião (born Luanda, 8 September 1963), son of António Manuel de Paula Morando Penaguião (born Lisbon, 20 June 1935), of Italian descent, and wife Maria João da Costa Pereira Caldas (born Lisbon, 17 June 1945), and had two children (Tomás Pinto Balsemão Penaguião and Marta Pinto Balsemão Penaguião).
  • Henrique da Costa Lobo Pinto Balsemão, Director of Programs of SIC, married on 29 April 2006 to Vera Cravinho, and had three children:
    • Maria Cravinho Pinto Balsemão.
    • Concha Cravinho Pinto Balsemão.
    • Vicente Cravinho Pinto Balsemão (born 2010).

He married secondly Maria Mercedes Aliu Presas, of Spanish descent, and had two children:

  • Joana Presas Pinto Balsemão (born Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 25 June 1976), married to Francisco de Atouguia Belford Correia da Silva (born Lisbon, 31 October 1974), son of Pedro de Barros Belford Correia da Silva (born Luanda, 24 April 1946), of the
    Oeiras
    , Paço de Arcos, 29 June 2001), Teresa Pinto Balsemão Correia da Silva (born Lisbon, 9 November 2004) and Pedro Pinto Balsemão Correia da Silva (born Lisbon, 24 August 2007)). She went to St Julian's School in Carcavelos.
  • Francisco Pedro Presas Pinto Balsemão, unmarried and without issue.

Out of wedlock he had a son by Isabel Maria Supico Pinto (born Lisbon, 26 October 1942), second wife without issue of Vasco Maria Vasques da Cunha d'Eça da Costa e Almeida, 3rd Viscount of Maiorca (Lisbon, Encarnação, 12 May 1923 – 16 January 2018), natural daughter of Minister Clotário Luís Supico Pinto (1909–1990, 937th Associate of the Second Tauromachic Club, son of

Castelo Branco, Salgueiro do Campo, 7 November 1913 – Lisbon, 21 March 1968), wife of actor Ribeirinho
:

  • Francisco Maria Supico Pinto Balsemão, married Ana Duarte and had two daughters:
    • Isabel Duarte Pinto Balsemão.
    • Luísa Duarte Pinto Balsemão.

Honours

National

Foreign

Media related to Francisco Pinto Balsemão at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by
Prime Minister of Portugal
1981–1983[3]
 Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ "EPC – European Publishers – Recherchen aus Hamburg". Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Francisco Pinto Balsemão, PSD".
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