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His Excellency Mário Soares GColTE GCC GColL KE
Mário Soares in 1978
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 1999 – 19 July 2004
Constituency	Portugal
17th President of Portugal
In office 9 March 1986 – 9 March 1996
Prime Minister	Aníbal Cavaco Silva António Guterres
Preceded by	António Ramalho Eanes
Succeeded by	Jorge Sampaio
Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 9 June 1983 – 6 November 1985
President	António Ramalho Eanes
Deputy	Carlos Mota Pinto Rui Machete
Preceded by	Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Succeeded by	Aníbal Cavaco Silva
In office 23 July 1976 – 28 August 1978
President	António Ramalho Eanes
Preceded by	Vasco de Almeida e Costa
Succeeded by	Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Personal details
Born	Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (1924-12-07)7 December 1924 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	7 January 2017(2017-01-07) (aged 92) Lisbon, Portugal
Political party	National: Socialist Party European: Party of European Socialists
Spouse(s)	Maria Barroso
Children	2
Profession	Lawyer Historian Professor

Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾiu suˈaɾɨʃ]; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985. He was President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.

Media related to Mário Soares at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Portuguese) Fundação Mário Soares
• (in Portuguese) Soares' official site for the Portuguese elections of 2006 Archived 2019-01-29 at the Wayback Machine

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