Manuel Tito de Morais


Manuel Alfredo Tito de Morais, was a Portuguese politician.

Background

He was the eldest child and son of Tito Augusto de Morais, a Navy Officer of the Portuguese Navy and a Minister, and wife Carolina de Antas de Loureiro de Macedo, sister in law of Augusto de Paiva Bobela da Mota, 116th Governor of Portuguese India in 1919 and great-great-granddaughter in female line of the 1st Baron of São José de Porto Alegre, a rich merchant from Macau.

Career

He graduated as a Licentiate in Electronic Engineering from Ghent University.
In 1945, with the end of World War II and the beginning of new democratic movements, he was a Member of the Central Commission of the Movimento de Unidade Democrática. However, due to the political conditionments of the Estado Novo, he was forced to exile in Angola, where two of his sons were born in the 1950s, France, Brazil, Algeria, where Manuel Alegre and other resistant elements, many of whom Socialists as him, were already living and where another son was born in the 1960s, Switzerland, Italy and West Germany. In Algeria he was the Director of the Junta de Salvação Nacional and, in Geneva in 1964, he founded the Associação Socialista Portuguesa, which later originated the Socialist Party in 1973, of which he was also one of the Founders and a Militant.
After the Carnation Revolution and the legalization of his Party, he became a Deputy to the Constituent Assembly in 1975 and a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic in the following year of 1976. Between May 1979 and April 1980 he held the office of Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council.
He occupied the office of Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic between 8 February 1978 and 29 October 1978 and again from 22 October 1981 and 30 May 1983, and was its 6th President from 8 June 1983 to 24 October 1984. In these last functions he also became a Member of the Portuguese Council of State.
In the 6th Congress of PS he became its Secretary-General between 1986 and 1988.

Family

He married firstly Maria da Conceição Formosinho Mealha, daughter of :pt:João Vitorino Mealha|João Vitorino Mealha, a Lawyer, and wife Maria Julieta da Guerra Formosinho, whom he divorced, and had five children:
He married secondly Maria Emília Adelaide Pedroso da Cunha Rego Monteiro dos Santos, of some maternal Nobility, and had three children: