Constituent Assembly of Portugal

Constituent Assembly
Assembleia Constituinte
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Type
Type
History
Established 2 June 1975
Disbanded 2 April 1976
Succeeded by Assembly of the Republic
Leadership
President
Henrique de Barros, Socialist Party[1]
Vice Presidents
Seats 250
Elections
Party-list proportional representation
Last election
 25 April 1975
Meeting place
São Bento Palace, Lisbon, Portugal

The Constituent Assembly (Portuguese: Assembleia Constituinte) was the Portuguese constituent assembly elected on 25 April 1975, after the Carnation Revolution (25 April 1974), for the purpose of adopting a constitution for the Third Portuguese Republic, the Constitution of 1976.

Background

After the Carnation Revolution occurred in Portugal, the National Salvation Junta dissolved all political offices previously existing in the Estado Novo (Law no. 1/74[2]). On 14 May 1974, the President of the National Salvation Junta (António de Spínola) extinguishes the National Assembly and the Corporative Chamber (Law no. 2/74[3]), the two parliamentary chambers in the Estado Novo, and establishes a transitory constitution (Law no. 3/74[3]) to be used until the new constitution being approved.

Elections

The election of the Constituent Assembly was carried out in Portugal on 25 April 1975, exactly one year after the Carnation Revolution and was the first free election in fifty years, the first in the new democratic regime created after the revolution.

The election was won by the Socialist Party, being the Democratic Party the second most voted party. The parliament had a large majority of parties defending socialist or democratic socialist ideas and the Constitution, approved on 2 April 1976, reflected such influence.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Assembleia Contituinte - Cronologia" (in Portuguese). Assembly of the Republic. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "Diário do Governo" (PDF). Diário do Governo. 1st (in Portuguese) (97). 25 April 1974. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Diário do Governo" (PDF). Diário do Governo. 1st (in Portuguese) (112). 14 May 1974. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
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