António Costa Pinheiro

yer: Luanda

Doğmuş: 1917

Ölüm: 1983

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António Costa Pinheiro was a Portuguese political figure, reformer and revolutionary. He was born in Luanda, Angola in 1917 and moved to Portugal several years later. He joined the Movement for Democratic Unity in the 1960s and supported the Presidential candidacies of José Norton de Matos, Manuel Quintão Meireles and Humberto Delgado. Pinheiro de Azevedo served in the Portuguese Colonial War, as an admiral in charge of the maritime defense of Portuguese Angola. After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, he was appointed to the National Salvation Junta and became Prime Minister of the Sixth Provisional Government on 29 August 1975. He ran for president in 1976 and lost the election. Pinheiro de Azevedo died in 1983.