It was suggested ( in RTP1 TV-Programme Prós e Contras, in March 2008 ), that one of the reasons for the weak vote could be the Portuguese were reluctant to elect any President for more than 2 terms ( only allowed by the Portuguese Constitution of 1976 if non-consecutive ).

Under the Portuguese Constitution adopted in 1976, in the wake of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, the President is elected to a five-year term, and may serve for a maximum of two consecutive terms.

On December 2, 1985, Maria Pia signed a document purporting to amend the Portuguese Monarchic Constitution of 1838, and recognising Rosario Poidimani as her eventual heir.

It served as the model for the Norwegian Constitution of 1814, the Portuguese Constitution of 1822 and the Mexican one of 1824, and was implemented with minor modifications in various Italian states by the Carbonari during their revolt of 1820 and 1821.

He voted against all the revisions of the Portuguese Constitution of 1976, and abstained at a commemorative vote for the 10th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall, in 1999.

In 1844 ( 4 November ), the Norwegian Ministry of Justice declared: "... it is assumed that the so-called Portuguese Jews are, regardless of the Constitution ’ s § 2, entitled to dwell in this country, which is also, to knowledge, what has hitherto been assumed.

* Portuguese European Constitution referendum

* Original text of the 1988 Constitution in Portuguese, with all amendments.

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The Basic Law of Macau is modelled upon the Basic Law of Hong Kong, although it is not totally equal, as it namely is influenced by the Portuguese Constitution in some points as, for example, in some norms concerning fundamental rights.

The Portuguese referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was a planned referendum to be held on October 9, 2005 to decide whether the Portugal should ratify the proposed Constitution of the European Union.

According to the Portuguese Constitution, the result of the referendum is binding if more than of half of registered voters turn out.

This was the second time the Portuguese Constitution has been revised because of the European Constitution, as the original version did not allow referendums on international treaties.

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The first Portuguese Constitution was drafted in 1822.

The Portuguese Constitution of 1933 was introduced by Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar in 1933, establishing the basis of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime, following the 28th May 1926 coup d ' état.

* Text of the Portuguese Constitution with seven revisions ( english )

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The Portuguese presidential election were held on 22 January 2006 to elect a successor to the incumbent President Jorge Sampaio, who was term-limited from running for a third consecutive term by the Constitution of Portugal.

According to the Portuguese Constitution, to be elected, a candidate needs a majority ( 50 % + 1 ).

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* 1976 – André Couto, Portuguese racing driver

* 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer

* 1976 – Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese race car driver

* February 15 – João Branco Núncio, Portuguese bullfighter ( died 1976 )

In 1976, in Italy, Sergio Bardotti and Luis Enríquez Bacalov adapted the story into a musical play called I Musicanti, which two years later was translated into Portuguese by the Brazilian composer Chico Buarque.

* Carlos Teixeira ( born 1976 ), Portuguese volleyball player

Since the creation of a democratic local administration, in 1976, the Portuguese municipalities have been ruled by a system composed by an executive body ( the municipal chamber ) and a deliberative body ( the municipal assembly ).

Despite this justification there is a very famous political 1976 interview recorded by the Portuguese state-run television channel — RTP, in which Barroso, as a politically minded student during the post-Carnation Revolution turmoil known as PREC, criticises the bourgeois education system which " throws students against workers and workers against students.

His maternal grandmother Sara Bensliman Bensaúde, who died in 1976, was a of Sephardi Jew from Morocco of Portuguese origin, and his maternal grandfather Fernando Branco ( 1880 – 1940 ) was a Naval Officer of the Portuguese Navy and later the Foreign Minister of Portugal ; Sampaio himself is agnostic, and does not consider himself a Jew.

Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares,,,, (; born 7 December 1924 ), Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.

* Portuguese Timor an overseas territory between 1951 and 1961, until unilaterally declaring independence as East Timor in 1975, it was annexed by Indonesia in 1976, recognised by UN as non-self-governing-territory under Portuguese administration between 1961 – 1999.

* Deputy for Lisbon, and later Castelo Branco in the Portuguese National Parliament ( 1976 – 1995 )

* Lúcia Moniz ( born 1976 ), Portuguese singer and actress

Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro ( born 5 July 1976 ), commonly known as Nuno Gomes, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Blackburn Rovers in the Football League Championship, as a striker.

He then became Director of the Arm of Engineering of the Army from 1975 to 1976, Chief of General Staff of the Army and by inherency a Member of the Conselho da Revolução ( Revolutionary Council ) from 1976 to 1978 being the Captain of April who lasted more in Portuguese politics, with an extensive curriculum of public service.

In 1976, the party changed its name to the Portuguese Workers ' Communist Party, and it was then that it started to use the acronym PCTP / MRPP.

Summary of the 27 June 1976 Portuguese presidential election results

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

The colonial power, Portugal, becoming ever richer and more powerful, would not tolerate the growth of these neighbouring states and subjugated them one by one, so that by the beginning of this century the Portuguese had complete control over the entire area.

After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640, Portugal would reestablish its authority over the lost territories of the Portuguese Empire.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )

* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal

* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

* Roupa Velha ( Portuguese for " old clothes "), from Portugal, often made from leftovers from Cozido à Portuguesa.

The current Romance language spoken, Galego, has many words of Celtic origin and is the ancestor of the Portuguese language used mainly in Brazil and Portugal.

Since after independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Cape Verdean students continued to be admitted every year at Portuguese high schools, polytechnical institutes and universities, through bilateral agreements between the Portuguese Government and the Cape Verdean Government.

TAP Air Portugal the Portuguese national carrier operates a daily service from Lisbon to Sal with late evening departures returning after midnight and reaching Lisbon in the early morning.

Things in the colony began to change when the prince and future king Dom João VI, along with the whole Portuguese court, escaped to Brazil in 1808 due to Portugal being invaded by Napoleonic troops.

In France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, the word " couscous " ( cuscús in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian ) usually refers to couscous together with the stew.

Between 1580 and 1640 the Crown of Portugal and the Crown of Spain were held by the same kings and therefore Casablanca and all other areas occupied by the Portuguese were under Spanish control, even though maintaining an autonomous Portuguese administration.

As Portugal broke the ties with the Spanish king in 1640, Casablanca came under fully Portuguese control once again.