António Ramalho Eanes
António Ramalho Eanes dos Santos [ ɐtɔniw duʃ sɐtuʃ ʁɐmaʎu jɐnɨʃ ] ( born January 25, 1935 in Alcains ) was 1976-1986 President of Portugal.
Ramalho Eanes comes from a modest background and could not study as hoped. He joined the army and was in the Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974 as an officer in the colonial war in Angola, he went to Portugal and joined the Armed Forces Movement (MFA ) to. He became famous when he left a radical faction in the MFA deposed on November 25, 1975, had gathered around substantially the captain Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho. Against this he went to in the first free presidential election on 27 June 1976, and won. He took office on July 14 and was re-elected in December 1980 by a large majority.
In the first years Ramalho Eanes of many politically left standing was regarded as a traitor to the ideals of the MFA. As president, he tried to keep certain bourgeois ideals of the initial Carnation Revolution; while he took a political isolation in buying and founded his own party, but became important only for a short time. Like other representatives of the Carnation Revolution was Ramalho Eanes soldier with no political experience, his ideas remained generally and ultimately had little lasting effect.