Adelino Amaro da Costa

Adelino Amaro da Costa ( born April 18, 1943 in Lisbon, † December 4, 1980 at Camarate ) was a conservative Portuguese politician.

Life

Adelino Amaro da Costa was born in 1943 in Lisbon. His father's work for the Government of the Salazar dictatorship led the family in 1944 on the island of Madeira, where Amaro da Costa was growing up. 1953 the family moved back to Lisbon.

Amaro da Costa studied engineering at the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico, where he graduated in 1966. After his military service in the Portuguese Navy, he worked as an engineer and also worked as a journalist. From 1968 he was in the senior staff of the Ministry of Education in the authoritarian Estado Novo regime of Marcelo Caetano.

After the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, he was with Diogo Freitas do Amaral founder of the Conservative Party CDS. He was regarded since then as one of the main ideologues of the party. He was also instrumental in the creation of the electoral alliance Aliança Democrática, the 1979 December 2, gained the majority in the parliamentary elections in Portugal. For the first time since 1974 with that came a civil government in the country to power, the Prime Minister was the charismatic Francisco Sá Carneiro. Amaro da Costa was born on January 3, 1980 Defense Minister of the new government.

On December 4, 1980, Amaro da Costa was the Prime Minister and two wives on a flight to Porto, as the Cessna propped up shortly after the start, near the village of Camarate. The accident was classified after completion of investigations by the authorities as an accident, even if suspicions about an assassination could not be resolved unequivocally.

Honors

After the crash, the Largo das Caldas in Largo Adelino Amaro da Costa was renamed in Lisbon on 22 December 1980. A total of 126 streets and squares across the country were given the name Adelino Amaro da Costa.