Francisco Salgado Zenha

Francisco Salgado Zenha (1923 - 1993) was a Portuguese left-wing politician and lawyer, as a student at the University of Coimbra, he was elected president of the Academic Association of Coimbra, being dismissed some months after because he refused to participate in an demonstration of support to the Fascist regime. Some time after, in 1945, he became one of the founders of the youth wing of the Movement of Democratic Unity (Portuguese: Movimento de Unidade Democrática - Juvenil or MUD-J), a movement that congregated almost all the opposition movements to the Portuguese Fascist regime. His "subversive" actions lead him to prison for several times. The University of Coimbra (Portuguese: Universidade de Coimbra) is a Portuguese public university in Coimbra, a city in central Portugal. ... AACs Symbol The Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) is the students union of the University of Coimbra. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...

Later, he supported the presidential candidature of Norton de Matos, and in that times he met Mário Soares. Some years after he supported another democratic candidate to the manipulated elections, Humberto Delgado. After that he joined several Socialist movements, and in 1973, he was among the founders of the Portuguese Socialist Party. As an anti-fascist he became notable for defending in court many people acused of anti-fascist and anti-colonialist activities. Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (born December 7, 1924), Portuguese politician, was born in Lisbon, and graduated in history, philosophy and law from the University of Lisbon. ... The Socialist Party ( Portuguese: Partido Socialista) is a political party of Portugal. ...

After the Carnation Revolution, he was minister of Justice in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th provisional governments and Minister of Finance in the 5th. He was member of the commission that made the review of the judiciary composition with the Holy See that, for example, legalized the divorce in Portugal. Between 1974 and 1982 he was member of the direction of the Socialist Party and member of its Parliamentary Group. The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese, Revolução dos Cravos) was an almost bloodless left-leaning revolution started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a liberal democracy at the end of a two-year process of a communist-dominated military...

In 1980 he started a dissidence with his old friend Mário Soares because the Party's support to Ramalho Eanes in the presidential election. António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes (born in Alcains, Castelo Branco, 1935) was a Portuguese general and political figure. ...

In 1986 he was a presidential candidate supported by the Portuguese Communist Party and the Party of the Democratic Renewal, even being supported by these two parties he failed to reach the second round and virtually left the Portuguese political scene. PCPs official symbol, featuring the hammer and sickle and the Portuguese national colors, red and green. ...

He died in November 1 of 1993.