de Macedo Girão de Sá Carneiro (b. Porto, Santo Ildefonso, 1992) Pedro Nunes de Matos de Sá Carneiro (b. Porto, 1964), married to Maria Benedita de Matos Chaves Pinheiro Torres, of the Barons of a Torre de Pero Palha, b. 1967, and had an only daughter: Maria Teresa Pinheiro Torres de Sá Carneiro (b. Porto, 2000) Later in life he lived together with Snu Abecassis, who died in the same accident as Sá Carneiro. Ideological assessment and legacy Sá Carneiro started his political life in the youth of the Acção Católica (the Portuguese Catholic Action), being his first activity in civic life to write a letter to Marcelo Caetano requesting the return of the António Ferreira Gomes, the exiled pro-democracy bishop of Oporto. He probably had links with the Catholic syndicalist organizations and Christian socialism in general. He was very influenced by Catholic personalism and humanism (especially its Christian version). Sá Carneiro tried to adapt the social-democratic ideas of the likes of Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, and the post-1945 SPD to the cultural context of Portugal and its traditionally Catholic society. The Godesberg Program had a very important influence in his social democratic thought as it became the model for his party and its cut with Marxist socialism. Despite having an anti-collectivist and anti-statist party with an emphasis on personal rights and duties that was responsible for privatizing the industrial sectors nationalized during the revolutionary period, he increased social spending during his term, supported land reform and its redistribution in Alentejo and he was proud that his party had been adopted by the working, middle-class blue-collar worker and middle-low class workers and that his party defended "the construction of a socialist society in liberty". Due to all these specificities, he called his party's ideology "Portuguese Social Democracy". He was recognized as populist by supporters and opponents, as well as neutral analysts. Works Sá Carneiro was the author of various works, among them: Uma Tentativa de Participação Política (An Attempt of Political Participation) (1973) Por uma Social-Democracia Portuguesa (For a Portuguese Social Democracy) (1975) Poder Civil; Autoridade Democrática e Social-Democracia (Civilian Power; Democratic Authority and Social Democracy (1975) Uma Constituição para os Anos 80: Contributo para um Projecto de Revisão (A Constitution for the 1980s: Contribution for a Project of Revision) (1979). Honours Grand-Cross of the Order of Christ, Portugal (29 May 1981) Grand-Cross of the Order of the Tower and