Eurico de Melo

Eurico Silva Teixeira de Melo (28 September 1925 – 1 August 2012) was a Portuguese politician and engineer, who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1987 until 1990.

Biography Eurico de Melo was born in 1925, in Santo Tirso. He studied Engineering in the University of Porto, later becoming an assistant professor in that university.

After the Carnation Revolution, he joined the Social Democratic Party. He was the Civil Governor of Braga District from 1975 until 1976.

He became once again the Minister of Internal Administration in the first cabinet of Aníbal Cavaco Silva and, after the PSD won an absolute majority in the 1987 legislative election, he became Deputy Prime Minister.

He left the office after a cabinet reshuffle in January 1990, later becoming the PSD's main candidate in the 1994 European Parliament election.

Melo died in 2012, in Porto, at 86 years old.