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In 1961-1962 he was a Chairman of Student's General Meeting.
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In 1961-1962 he was a Chairman of Student's General Meeting.
In 1974, some months after the Carnation Revolution, he was one of the Founders and President of then Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a right-wing party. He led this party till 1985, and again from 1988 to 1991. He served as a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic from 1975 to 1982 or 1983, and again in 1992 and 1993.He was also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State between 1974 and 1982.
In the parliamentary elections of 1979 and 1980, the Democratic Alliance (of which the CDS was a part) won a majority and formed the government, in which Freitas served as Deputy Prime Minister or Vice-Prime-Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1980 and Deputy Prime Minister or Vice-Prime-Minister and Minister of Defence between 1981 and 1983. After the death of Francisco Sá Carneiro, Freitas do Amaral was interim Prime Minister for a short period between 1980 and 1981. Between 1981 and 1982 he was also the President of the European People's Party.
He was a candidate in 1985 for the presidency in the 1986 presidential election. Supported by his own People's Party and by the Social Democratic Party, he established a commanding lead in the first round, but lost the second round by some 150,000 votes to Mário Soares, who was endorsed by the two eliminated candidates.
He was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1995 and until 1996.
A European Federalist, he left the party he founded, disagreeing mainly with the Eurosceptic line.
Always seen as a right-winger, Freitas do Amaral supported the Social Democratic Party in the parliamentary election of 2002. However, disappointed with the government performance, and critical of its support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Freitas do Amaral surprised many observers by announcing his support for the Socialist Party in the 2005 election. He was subsequently nominated for Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the XVII Constitutional Government, led by the Socialist leader José Sócrates. He resigned after a little over one year in office, citing health reasons and, as revealed to a newspaper, tiredness resulting from the many diplomatic trips taken.
Currently, he is Professor in the Faculty of Law of the Lusófona University of Lisbon, where he teaches and governs the chair of the Economics of Public Law in Law degree, developing other teaching activities in the same college.
The Tamariz case : critical study of jurisprudence (1965)
The use of the public property by individuals (1965)
The execution of judgments of the administrative courts (1967-1997)
The modern Portuguese political companies (1971)
The reorganization of the Ministry of National Education (1972)
Public Law Studies in honor of Professor Marcello Caetano (1973)
The presidential role in legal persons of public law (1973)
A British parliamentary practice (1973)
The responsibility of administration in Portuguese Law (1973)
Exhibition (1974)
The answer is very simple ... (1975)
The armed forces in the context of the Nation (1976)
Administrative law and management science (1978)
Concept of administrative reform (1980)
Concept and nature of administrative appeal (1981-2005)
Law of national defense and armed forces: Memory justification (1982)
Report on the program content and teaching methods of a discipline of Administrative Law (1983)
Administrative Law (1983-1989)
Science policy (1983-1994)
Governments management: summary of the synthesis lesson(1983-2002)
The constitutional revision of 1982: texts and projects (1984)
Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister (1984)
Foreign policy and defense policy: speeches and other texts (1985)
A solution for Portugal (1985-1986)
Administrative Law Course(1986-2008)
Stages of the decision-making process of the 1st degree (1992)
For a history of political ideas: Machiavelli and Erasmus or both sides of the fight between power and morality (1992)
A vote in favor of Maastrichtreasons of an attitude (1992)
How to advance the process of regionalization (1993)
Urbanism rights: resume (1993)
Administrative codification procedure in Portugal: rationale, traditions and constitutional framework (1994)
The failed attempt of a Portugal-United States agreement on the Portuguese future oversea (1963) (1994)
Basic documents for the history of CDS (Social Democratic Centre Party) (1995)
The old regime and the revolution: political memoirs: 1941-1975 (1995)
In what moment Portugal became an independent country (1996-2002)
The role legal-political of countersignature ministers : study of constitutional law and political science (1997)
History of political ideas (1999-2008)
Summaries of introduction to law (2000)
D. Afonso Henriques: biography (2000-2006)
The Magnificent Rector (2001)
Legal aspects of public works: (arbitration award on the work of Eta-hydraulic Bunk Tavira) (2002)
Study on concessions and other acts of administration: Opinions (2002)
From September 11 to the Iraq crisis (2002-2003)
Main aspects of administrative litigation reform (2002-2007)
Viriato: play in 3 acts (2003)
Throught the memory: short stories of my life (2003)
D. Manuel I and the building of the modern state in Portugal (2003)
Studies of public law and related matters (2004)
Instruction manual to law (2004)
Fifteen months in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006)
The crisis in the Council of Justice of the Portuguese Football Federation: (legal opinion) (2008)
He was one of the Founders and President of then Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a right-wing party. He led this party till 1985, and again from 1988 to 1991.In the parliamentary elections of 1979 and 1980, the Democratic Alliance (of which the CDS was a part) won a majority and formed the government.He was a candidate in 1985 for the presidency in the 1986 presidential election. Supported by his own People's Party and by the Social Democratic Party, he established a commanding lead in the first round, but lost the second round by some 150,000 votes to Mário Soares, who was endorsed by the two eliminated candidates.Always seen as a right-winger, Freitas do Amaral supported the Social Democratic Party in the parliamentary election of 2002. However, disappointed with the government performance, and critical of its support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Freitas do Amaral surprised many observers by announcing his support for the Socialist Party in the 2005 election. He was subsequently nominated for Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the XVII Constitutional Government, led by the Socialist leader José Sócrates.