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Francisco Sá Carneiro

Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro (Portuguese: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku ˈsa kɐɾˈnɐjɾu] ; 19 July 1934 – 4 December 1980) was a Portuguese politician, who was one of the founders and the first leader of the Social Democratic Party (then known as the Popular Democratic Party). He served as Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months during 1980, until his death in a plane crash in Camarate on 4 December 1980.

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