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with Dr. Francisco Pinto Balsemão, who was, as I said, the Minister more, of more hierarchy, that represented the PSD in that Government, and would become the next Prime Minister, either with the President of the Republic, either with two or three leaders of my party. Well, I must to say that at the time our information was practically nil (...) and the first conviction we had was that, if it was attempted, it was against Dr. Sá Carneiro, and had to do with the enthusiasm that led to the fact that in the second elections he ran thousands of votes - passed, save for error, from 45 10 47.5% of the votes, and therefore the first interpretation, if it was attempted, it must have been for Dr. Sá Carneiro, to stop this movement (...) if there was attempt was against Dr. Sá Carneiro, and it was for political reasons (...) the Dr. Sá Carneiro was elected, he and the Coalition, for another four years, and therefore this was the our first interpretation. I admit that in other quarters, namely in quadrants on the Portuguese left, there have been other interpretations. The first, ours. that was it. And it was only much later, much later, that this hypothesis started to be ruled out, and to focus attention on the hypothesis that the attack was against Eng. Adelino Amaro da Costa. And only then did he make the connection with the investigations he was doing on the [Military] Defense of Overseas and its irregularities, which we did not know what they were. But there was a moment, I don't know how to specify - you know for sure -, there was a moment when one of the Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry said 'this must not have been against Dr. Sá Carneiro, this must have been against Eng. Amaro da Costa'. And only from there is it that attention began to be given to what could have motivated an attempt on those against Eng. Amar da Costa, Minister of Defense. But this, this notion was much, much later to those first moments, much later. The widespread belief was that it was either uccident, unUL then it wasn't uguinst anyone, or it wus un ultempi, and it was against Dr. Sá Carneiro, who he was the leader of the Democratic Alliance, and he had almost half the country with him, in short, and more

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half of the Deputies of the Assembly of the Republic. And so that was the first conviction, which lasted a long time ».

He added the following:

«(...) I admit that some people, or many, have made this transfer possible object of Dr. Sá Carneiro's artack on Eng. Amaro da Costa very quickly. Me I confess thar I didn't do it all that quickly. It was only much later that I became convinced that, with based on data obtained from the different Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry, which, in fact, it probably would have been for Eng. Amaro da Costa. The fact that Dr. Sú Carneiro does not walk with the plane as a rule, that plane being a plane that carried Eng. Amaro da Costa in that campaign, and also General Soares Carneiro, and the issue of investigations to the Fund, this did not make us think as soon as the attack was on Eng. Amaro da Costa, everything was open. It could have been for Dr. Si Carneiro, as an undisputed leader from AD; it could have been for General Soares Carneiro, who also rode thai plane in several displacements of his campaign, which would make the Presidential Elections to have to go back, because, according to our law, a presidential candidate dies in the course of campaign, the campaign goes back to the beginning, and there is a deudline for the forces presented or supported thai candidate can present another, which is, by the way.