António Soares Carneiro

António Soares Carneiro OA ComI GCTE
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
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
Personal details
Born	(1928-01-25)25 January 1928 Custóias, Matosinhos, Portugal
Died	Lisbon, Portugal
Political party	Democratic Alliance (1980)
Alma mater	Portuguese Military Academy
Military service
Service/branch	Portuguese Army
Rank	General

António da Silva Osório Braga Soares Carneiro, OA ComI GCTE (born January 25, 1928 in Custóias, Matosinhos, Portugal - died January 28, 2014; Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu suˈaɾɨʃ kɐɾˈnɐjɾu]) was a Portuguese retired military officer and former politician. A General in the Portuguese Army, he was Governor of a southern province of Portuguese Angola at the time of the Carnation Revolution which deposed the Estado Novo 25 April 1974.

In the presidential election of 1980, the right-wing Democratic Alliance, a coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic and Social Centre, and the People's Monarchist Party, nominated Soares Carneiro as its candidate. Two of his leading supporters, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro (no relation) and Defence Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa died in a plane crash while heading for a rally in Porto two days before the election. Most polls suggest that this deaths didn't have much influence in the result of the presidential elections, since they predicted the reelection of President, General António Ramalho Eanes, who had 56% of the votes, while Soares Carneiro had 40%.

Soares Carneiro later served as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, under the presidency of Mário Soares.

He died in Lisbon, January 28, 2014

External links

• General António Soares Carneiro Profile