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Mário Soares
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President of Portugal (1924–2017)
OverviewAI-generated
Mário Soares was a Portuguese politician, lawyer, and writer born in Lisbon on December 7, 1924. He was a member of the Socialist Party and was educated at the University of Lisbon. His professional work locations included Strasbourg and Brussels, and he was employed by the University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany. He was also a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer.
Soares authored 39 works, including *Um erro de Afonso Costa*, *O homem que come, bebe e respira política*, *Os poemas da minha vida*, *Portugal's new foreign policy*, and *As ideias políticas e sociais de Teófilo Braga*. He spoke Portuguese and held an atheistic worldview. He was married to Maria Barroso and had a child named João Soares. He died of a stroke in Lisbon on January 7, 2017, and was buried at Prazeres Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 39
Top works
- Um erro de Afonso Costa
- O homem que come, bebe e respira política
- Os poemas da minha vida
- Portugal's new foreign policy
- As ideias políticas e sociais de Teófilo Braga
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Lisbon, Portugal
Known for
- Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship — Self (archive footage)2024
- Mário2024
- Matheus Schdmit, um caso de amor pelo Brasil — Arquivo2019
- Owners of Portugal — Self - Prime Minister (archive footage)2012
- Memória Cubana — Self (archive footage)2010
- Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air — Self2007
- Alvaro Cunhal — Self2005
- Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought — Self2003
- Vasco Santana: O Bom Português — Self1998
- Beijoqueiro: Portrait of a Serial Kisser — Self (archive footage)1992
via TMDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Soares
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Lisbon
- Place of death
- Lisbon
- Spouse
- Maria Barroso
- Child
- João Soares
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Lisbon
- Political party
- Socialist Party
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Field of work
- politics
- Official website
- www.fmsoares.pt
- Image
- Mário Soares.jpg
- Work location
- Brussels
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- Commons category
- Mário Soares
- date of birth
- 1924-12-07
- member of
- Académie des sciences d'outre-mer
- name in native language
- Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares
- date of death
- 2017-01-07
- birth name
- Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares
- cause of death
- stroke
- place of burial
- Prazeres Cemetery
- candidacy in election
- 2006 Portuguese presidential election
- P10632
- Mário Soares
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares GColTE, GCC, GColL ( European Portuguese: [ˈmaɾju alˈβɛɾtu ˈnɔβɾɨ ˈlɔpɨʃ suˈaɾɨʃ]; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese statesman who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985 and subsequently as the president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first secretary-general of the Socialist Party, from its foundation in 1973 to 1986. A major political figure in Portugal, he is considered the father of Portuguese democracy.
Family
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