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Portuguese presidential election, 1991 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (220 words) |
 | The communists presented Carlos Carvalhas, who had been Assistant General Secretary of the Party a year before (Ãlvaro Cunhal was the General Secretary). |
| Carvalhas would later be elected General Secretary, in 1992. |
| On the right, as the Social Democratic Party supported Soares, the Democratic Social Center presented the only right-wing candidate, BasÃlio Horta. |
| Pravda.RU:Portuguese Communist Party united as left fights right (630 words) |
| General Secretary, Carlos Carvalhas (Kar-VA-li-ash), has called on the Portuguese people not to abstain (opinion polls predict a 50% abstention) even though the policies, and politics, of the Socialists in the last six years and the PSD for eight years before them are discredited due to rampant corruption and incompetence from both parties. |
| It is in this climate that Carlos Carvalhas urges the reformist element within the Communist Party, who want a change of dialogue to adapt to new times, to join the conservatives in the Central Committee in the fight against the right. |
| Criticising the PS for its policy of privatisations, Carlos Carvalhas said that 'We have a secretary of state in the PS who declares that he drinks a glass of champagne with every privatisation. |
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