The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, evoked this Saturday the memory of former Head of State Jorge Sampaio, who died a year ago, and on Sunday he will lay a wreath at the Alto de São João cemetery in Lisbon.
“On the one year anniversary of the death of former President of the Republic Dr. Jorge Sampaio, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, pays tribute to him and evokes his memory.
In the same note, it is mentioned that on Sunday Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa “will lay a floral offering in the Alto de São João cemetery, where he rests in a family tomb.”
The former President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio died on September 10, 2021, at the age of 81, at the Santa Cruz hospital in Lisbon.
Before April 25, 1974, he was one of the protagonists of the academic crisis of the early 1960s, which generated a long and broad student protest movement against the Estado Novo, having defended political prisoners during the dictatorship as a lawyer. .
Jorge Sampaio was Secretary General of the PS (1989-1992), Mayor of Lisbon (1990-1995) and President of the Republic (1996 and 2006).
After serving as President of the Republic, he was appointed in 2006 by the Secretary General of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Fight against Tuberculosis and, between 2007 and 2013, he was the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations.
At the time of his death, he chaired the Global Platform for Syrian Students, which he founded in 2013 with the aim of helping to respond to the academic emergency that the conflict in Syria had created, leaving thousands of young people without access to education.
Source: Observadora
