VII Constitutional Government of Portugal

The VII Constitutional Government of Portugal (Portuguese: VII Governo Constitucional de Portugal) was the seventh government of the Third Portuguese Republic, in office from 9 January 1981 to 4 September 1981. It was formed by a centre-right coalition between the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Democratic and Social Center (CDS) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM), which ran together in the 1980 legislative election as the Democratic Alliance (AD). Francisco Pinto Balsemão was the Prime Minister.

VII Constitutional Government of Portugal
Cabinet of Portugal
Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Date formed	9 January 1981 (1981-01-09)
Date dissolved	4 September 1981 (1981-09-04)
People and organisations
President of the Republic	António Ramalho Eanes
Prime Minister	Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Member parties	Social Democratic Party (PSD) Democratic and Social Center (CDS) People's Monarchist Party (PPM)
Status in legislature	Majority coalition government 134 / 250 (54%)
Opposition parties	Socialist Party (PS) Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Popular Democratic Union (UDP)
History
Predecessor	VI Constitutional Government of Portugal
Successor	VIII Constitutional Government of Portugal

Composition

The government was composed of the Prime Minister, one Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, and 16 ministries comprising ministers, secretaries and sub-secretaries of state. The government also included the Ministers of the Republic for the Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira.^[1]

Ministers of the VII Constitutional Government of Portugal^[2]

Office	Minister		Party		Start of term	End of term
Prime Minister		Francisco Pinto Balsemão		PSD	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister (Ministro Adjunto do Primeiro Ministro)	Basílio Horta			CDS	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Internal Administration	Fernando do Amaral			PSD	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of National Defence	Luís de Azevedo Coutinho			CDS	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Foreign Affairs	André Gonçalves Pereira			Independent	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Justice	José Menéres Pimentel			PDS	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Finance and Planning	João Morais Leitão			CDS	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Education and Science	Vítor Pereira Crespo			PDS	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Labour	Henrique Nascimento Rodrigues			PSD	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Social Affairs	Carlos Chaves de Macedo			PSD	9 January 1981	3 August 1981
		Francisco Pinto Balsemão		PSD	3 August 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	António Cardoso e Cunha			PSD	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Commerce and Tourism	Alexandre Vaz Pinto			PSD	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Industry and Energy	Ricardo Bayão Horta			CDS	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Housing and Public Works	Luís Barbosa			CDS	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Transports and Communications	José Carlos Viana Baptista			PSD	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of Administrative Reform	Eusébio Marques de Carvalho			Independent	9 January 1981	4 June 1981
Minister of Quality of Life	Augusto Ferreira do Amaral			PPM	9 January 1981	4 June 1981
	João Vaz Serra de Moura			PPM	4 June 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of European Integration	Álvaro Barreto			PSD	9 January 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of the Republic for the Autonomous Region of Azores	Henrique Afonso da Silva Horta			Independent	9 January 1981	28 April 1981
	Tomás George da Conceição Silva			Independent	28 April 1981	4 September 1981
Minister of the Republic for the Autonomous Region of Madeira	Lino Miguel			Independent	9 January 1981	4 September 1981