Alfredo Nobre da Costa

Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɔβɾɨ ðɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ]; 10 September 1923 – 1 April 1996) was a Portuguese engineer and politician who briefly served as prime minister of Portugal from August to November 1978.

PresidentAntónio Ramalho Eanes

Preceded byMário Soares

Succeeded byCarlos Mota Pinto

Prime MinisterMário Soares

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Alfredo Nobre da Costa GCC
Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 29 August 1978[1] – 22 November 1978
President	António Ramalho Eanes
Preceded by	Mário Soares
Succeeded by	Carlos Mota Pinto
Minister of Industry and Technology
In office 25 March 1977 – 30 January 1978
Prime Minister	Mário Soares
Preceded by	António Sousa Gomes
Succeeded by	Carlos Melancia
Secretary of State for Heavy Industry
In office 14 January 1976 – 23 July 1976
Prime Minister	José Pinheiro de Azevedo
Preceded by	Mário Cardoso dos Santos
Succeeded by	Carlos Melancia
Personal details
Born	(1923-09-10)10 September 1923 Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal
Died	1 April 1996(1996-04-01) (aged 72) Lisbon, Portugal
Party	Independent
Spouse	Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama ​ ​ (m. 1951)​
Children	1

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A moderate independent centre-left politician, he was appointed by President António Ramalho Eanes to serve as prime minister, which would finish the four-year legislative term which had been initiated in the 1976 Portuguese legislative election. His cabinet consisted of independents. However, it failed to gain a majority in the Assembly of the Republic, and Nobre da Costa resigned a few weeks after being sworn in. He was replaced by Carlos Mota Pinto.^{[citation needed]} He was just the second head of government of Indian origin outside India, due to his patrilineal family being of Roman Catholic Brahmin lineage from Goa^[2].