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1980 Portuguese presidential election — Wikipedia (en)

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A presidential election was held in Portugal on 7 December 1980, as according to the decree that approved the Constitution, which stipulated that the first term of the President would end three months after the end of the first legislature, on 14 October 1980. Incumbent president General Ramalho Eanes gathered the support of the Socialist Party, despite the objection of their leader, Mário Soares, and also the support of the Portuguese Communist Party, whose candidate, Carlos Brito, withdrew the week before election day, giving his support to Eanes. The Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers also supported Eanes, whose picture became a feature on numerous walls around the country, painted by Communist Party activists. One of the major players in the democratic revolution of 1974, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, was also a candidate, for the second time, but finished far behind his previous result of 1976. The newly founded Workers Party of Socialist Unity presented its own candidate, Aires Rodrigues. His main opponent, General Soares Carneiro, was supported by the ruling Democratic Alliance (AD), a centre-right coalition of the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic Social Center, and the smaller People's Monarchist Party. Nevertheless, two days before the election, the death of Francisco Sá Carneiro in a plane crash shocked the country, and despite the accident, the election went ahead as planned. The popular commotion caused by the tragic death of Sá Carneiro led some analysts to speculate that it could reverse the trend in favor of Eanes, but they were proved wrong, with Ramalho Eanes winning with 56 percent of the votes, against 40 percent for Soares Carneiro, in an election with high voter turnout, reaching more than 84 percent of registered voters. Eanes was sworn in for a second term as President on 14 January 1981.

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