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Also known as Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, Mario Soares, Mario Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares

President of Portugal (1924–2017)

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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

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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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Soares
Gender
male
Citizenship
Portugal
Place of birth
Lisbon
Place of death
Lisbon
Occupation
writer
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
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
manner of death
natural causes
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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.

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