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Revision as of 06:49, 8 December 2005 by Vinodm (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho (31 August 1936, Lourenço Marques, now Maputo - ) is a Portuguese former military officer who was the chief strategist of the 25 April Revolution.
Named by his theatre-minded parents after Shakespeare's Othello, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho spent many years in the colonial war in Africa from 1961 onwards. He joined the underground Armed forces Movement, the MFA, which carried out a coup d’etat on 25 April 1974, in which he played a directing role. His part in the bloodless release of the country from the fascist dictatorship was recognised by people of other political viewpoints.
In the course of 1975, infighting in the MFA intensified, Carvalho representing the left-wing of the movement. A right-wing putch attempt, led by Antonio da Spinola, was thwarted in March. Carvalho was part of the Committee of National Salvation that governed the country after the Carnation Revolution. He established and led the special military Command for the Continent COPCON, which was set up to secure order in the country and to promote the revolutionary process. On 25 November 1975 in a military putsch under António Ramalho Eanes started a counter-revolution which, however, did not take the country back to fascism.
In 1976 and 1980 Carvalho unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for president against Eanes. Later, he was accused of contact with or membership of the group FP-25, which allegedly committed assassination attempts in Portugal in the following years. His trial was controversial and his allies assumed it to be motivated by revenge. Much later he was amnestied and a resumption of the procedure was struck down because of an obvious lack of evidence. Since then he has been a small-businessmen.
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho is still a reference point for activists of left in Portugal.
Electoral results
Presidential Elections of 27 June 1976
| Portuguese Presidential Election, 1976 - First Round (June 27) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||||
| António Ramalho Eanes | 2,967,137 | 60.8% | ||||||
| Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho | 792,760 | 16.2% | ||||||
| Pinheiro de Azevedo | 692,147 | 14.2% | ||||||
| Octávio Pato | 365,586 | 07.5% | ||||||
| Invalid Ballots | 43,242 | 00.9% | ||||||
| Blank Ballots | 20,253 | 00.4% | ||||||
| Total: | 4,881,125 | - | ||||||
- Registed voters: 6,467,480
- Turnout: 75.47%
- (Source: Portuguese Electoral Comission)
Presidential Elections of 7 December 1980
| Portuguese Presidential Election, 1980 - First Round (December 7) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Vote | Percent | |||||
| Ramalho Eanes | 3,262,520 | 55.9% | ||||||
| Soares Carneiro | 2,325,481 | 39.8% | ||||||
| Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho | 85,896 | 1.5% | ||||||
| Carlos Galvão de Melo | 48,468 | 0.8% | ||||||
| António Pires Veloso | 45,132 | 0.8% | ||||||
| Aires Rodrigues | 12,745 | 0.2% | ||||||
| Carlos Brito | 0 | 0.0% | ||||||
| Invalid Ballots | 44,014 | 0.8% | ||||||
| Blank Ballots | 16,076 | 0.3% | ||||||
| Total: | 5,840,332 | - | ||||||
- Registered Voters: 6,920,869
- Turnout: 84.39%
- (Source: Portuguese Electoral Comission)
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