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National holiday:
Day of Portugal, 10 June
Executive branch:
president, Council of State, prime minister, deputy prime minister, Council
of Ministers (cabinet)
Legislative branch:
unicameral Assembly of the Republic (Assembleia da Republica)
Judicial branch:
Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Supremo Tribunal de Justica)
Leaders:
Chief of State:
President Dr. Mario Alberto Nobre Lopes SOARES (since 9 March 1986)
Head of Government:
Prime Minister Anibal CAVACO SILVA (since 6 November 1985)
Political parties and leaders:
Social Democratic Party (PSD), Anibal CAVACO Silva; Portuguese Socialist
Party (PS), Jorge SAMPAIO; Party of Democratic Renewal (PRD), Herminio
MARTINHO; Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), Alvaro CUNHAL; Social Democratic
Center (CDS), Andriano MORREIRA (interim); National Solidarity Party, Manuel
SERGIO; Center Democratic Party; United Democratic Coalition (CDU;
Communists)
Suffrage:
universal at age 18
Elections:
President:
last held 13 February 1991 (next to be held NA February 1996); results - Dr.
Mario Lopes SOARES 70%, Basilio HORTA 14%, Carlos CARVALHAS 13%, Carlos
MARQUES 3%
Assembly of the Republic:
last held 6 October 1991 (next to be held NA October 1995); results - PSD
50.4%, PS 29.3%, CDU 8.8%, Center Democrats 4.4%, National Solidarity Party
1.7%, PRD 0.6%, other 4.8%; seats - (230 total) PSD 135, PS 72, CDU 17,
Center Democrats 5, National Solidarity Party 1
Communists:
Portuguese Communist Party claims membership of 200,753 (December 1983)

:Portugal Government

Member of:
AfDB, BIS, CCC, CE, CERN, COCOM, CSCE, EBRD, EC, ECE, ECLAC, EIB, FAO, GATT,
IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT,
INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, LAIA (observer), LORCS, NAM (guest),
NATO, NEA, OAS (observer), OECD, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL,
WEU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
Diplomatic representation:
Ambassador Joao Eduardo M. PEREIRA BASTOS; Chancery at 2125 Kalorama Road
NW, Washington, DC 20008; telephone (202) 328-8610; there are Portuguese
Consulates General in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, and Consulates in
Los Angeles, Newark (New Jersey), New Bedford (Massachusetts), and
Providence (Rhode Island)
US:
Ambassador Everett E. BRIGGS; Embassy at Avenida das Forcas Armadas, 1600
Lisbon (mailin