1st Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic

1st Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic
1st Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic
Overview
Legislative body	Assembly of the Republic
Meeting place	Palace of Saint Benedict
Term	3 June 1976 – 12 November 1980
Election	25 April 1976; 2 December 1979
Government	I Constitutional Government; II Constitutional Government; III Constitutional Government; IV Constitutional Government; V Constitutional Government; VI Constitutional Government
Website	parlamento.pt
Deputies (1976–1979)
Members	263
President	Vasco da Gama Fernandes (PS) (1976–1978); Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS) (1978–1979)
First Vice-President	António Arnault (PS)
Second Vice-President	Nuno Rodrigues dos Santos (PPD)
Third Vice-President	António Martins Canaverde (CDS)
Fourth Vice-President	José Vitoriano (PCP)
Deputies (1979–1980)
Members	250
President	Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida (PPD/PSD)
First Vice-President	Nuno Rodrigues dos Santos (PPD/PSD)
Second Vice-President	António Arnault (PS)
Third Vice-President	José Vitoriano (PCP)
Fourth Vice-President	António Martins Canaverde (CDS)

The 1st Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: I Legislatura da Terceira República Portuguesa) ran from 3 June 1976 to 12 November 1980. The composition of the Assembly of the Republic, the legislative body of Portugal, was determined by the results of the 1976 legislative election, held on 25 April 1976.

This was the only legislature where the composition changed mid-term due to another election, when the 1979 legislative election, held on 2 December 1979, was called after a period of governmental instability, with the resignation of Mário Soares government in 1978, plus the fall of two Presidential appointed Prime Ministers also in 1978 and 1979. President António Ramalho Eanes dissolved the Assembly in September 1979 and called an election for 2 December 1979. Due to the then Fixed-term Parliament rules, another election had to be held at end of the 4-year term of the legislature, in 1980.