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6th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic

6th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic
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Assembly of the Republic
Palace of Saint Benedict
4 November 1991 (1991-11-04) – 26 October 1995 (1995-10-26)
6 October 1991
XII Constitutional Government
parlamento.pt

230
António Barbosa de Melo (PPD/PSD)
Leonor Beleza (PPD/PSD) (1991–1994)Fernando Correia Afonso (PPD/PSD) (1994–1995)
Ferraz de Abreu (PS)
José Manuel Maia (PCP)
Adriano Moreira (CDS)

The 6th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: VI Legislatura da Terceira República Portuguesa) ran from 4 November 1991 to 26 October 1995. This legislature saw a reduction in the total number of elected MPs, from 250 to 230, following a constitutional review in 1989. The composition of the Assembly of the Republic, the legislative body of Portugal, was determined by the results of the 1991 legislative election, held on 6 October 1991.

The 7th Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 1991. In the election, the Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD) won for the third consecutive time and renewed the absolute majority achieved four years earlier.

Party	Assembly of the Republic
	PPD/PSD	2,902,351	50.60	135	–13
	PS	1,670,758	29.13	72	+12
	CDU	504,583	8.80	17	–14
	CDS	254,317	4.43	5	+1
	PSN	96,096	1.68	1	+1
	Other/blank/invalid	307,326	5.36	0	–1
Total	5,735,431	100.00	230	–20

Party	Parliamentary group leader	Elected	Dissolution
	PPD/PSD	Montalvão Machado (Lisbon) (1991–1992)Duarte Lima (Bragança) (1992–1995)José Pacheco Pereira (Porto) (1995)	135	58.7	135	58.7
	PS	Jaime Gama (Lisbon) (1991–1992)António de Almeida Santos (Porto) (1992–1993)Jaime Gama (Lisbon) (1993–1995)	72	31.3	72	31.3
	PCP	Carlos Carvalhas (Lisbon) (1991–1992)Octávio Teixeira (Setúbal) (1992–1995)	15	6.5	14	6.1
	CDS	António Lobo Xavier (Porto)	5	2.2	4	1.7
	PEV	Isabel Castro (Lisbon)	2	0.9	2	0.9
	PSN	Manuel Sérgio (Lisbon)	1	0.4	1	0.4
	Independent	Mário Tomé (Lisbon)Diogo Freitas do Amaral (Lisbon)	0	0.0	2	0.8
Total	230	100.0	230	100.0

Mário Tomé, Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) → Independent: A member of the Popular Democratic Union (UDP), he left the PCP caucus at the beginning of the legislature.
Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Democratic Social Center (CDS) → Independent: Left the CDS parliamentary group, and the party itself, following deep disagreements with the new leader, Manuel Monteiro, elected in 1992.

To be elected, a candidate needs to reach a minimum of 116 votes. Two ballots were needed to elected a new President. António Barbosa de Melo, from the Social Democratic Party, faced MP Alberto Oliveira e Silva, from the Socialist Party, in both rounds. On the second round, Barbosa de Melo was elected by a narrow majority:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
116 out of 230
António Barbosa de Melo (PPD/PSD)	109 / 230	N
Alberto Oliveira e Silva (PS)	71 / 230	N
Blank ballots	25 / 230
Invalid ballots	14 / 230
Absentees	11 / 230
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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
116 out of 230
António Barbosa de Melo (PPD/PSD)	117 / 230	Y
Alberto Oliveira e Silva (PS)	62 / 230	N
Blank ballots	31 / 230
Invalid ballots	0 / 230
Absentees	20 / 230
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