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Adriano Moreira died this Sunday morning at the age of 100, reported Diário de Notícias, which confirmed the news with a family source. Agência Lusa obtained confirmation from a CDS member that Moreira was president between 1986 and 1988.
Decorated by the President of the Republic last June with the Grand Cross of the Order of Camões, before his 100th birthday, Moreira stood out not only as a politician and statesman, but also as a university professor and thinker in the field of International Relations. .
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the New State, former president of the CDS, lawyer and university professor, Adriano Moreira was born on September 6, 1922 in Grijó, in Macedo de Cavaleiros. He moved to Lisbon as a child, when his father, António José Moreira, was appointed deputy chief of the Public Security Police in the port of Lisbon. He lived in the neighborhood of Campolide.
He studied at the Liceu Passos Manuel and later at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he graduated in Historical-Legal Sciences in 1944, in the midst of World War II.
Adriano Moreira: “I thank God because it was a happy life. The ending isn’t being unpleasant either.”
Recently graduated, his participation in a trial against the then Minister of War, Fernando dos Santos Costa, led him to be arrested in Aljube, where he remained for two months. In prison he met Mário Soares, whom until then he only knew by name. After being released, he joined the faculty of the former Colonial Higher School, later the Higher Institute of Overseas Studies (today ISCSP), where he received his doctorate with a thesis on the problem of prisons abroad.
Despite initially staying away from politics, in 1960 he was called by António de Oliveira Salazar to join his government as Undersecretary of State for Foreign Administration, so that he could put into practice the reforms he spoke of in his speeches. lessons. In 1961, he became Minister for Overseas. Moreira was one of the first Portuguese academics to reflect on the phenomenon of European integration and the reality of Portuguese colonialism in the 20th century, having been part of the first Portuguese delegation to the United Nations in the late 1950s.
When he left the government in 1963, he returned to teaching. In 1968 he married Monica Mayer, with whom he had six children.
Adriano Moreira dies at the age of 100
After April 25, he was relieved of his official duties and went into exile in Brazil, where he taught at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He returned to Portugal and to active politics in 1980, as a candidate for deputy on the lists of the Democratic Alliance. Later, he joined the CDS, which he led between 1986 and 1988, continuing as a deputy until 1995. In 2015 he was elected to the Council of State, a position he held until 2019.
On the occasion of his 100th birthday, on September 6, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that the lawyer and politician entered “into the History of Portugal uniting our past with the future” and that “he was great in two different political regimes”, representing the “always Portuguese universalism”.
“He projected the Portuguese language, culture and universal values throughout the world. He made an important contribution to the military institution for decades”, said the President of the Republic.
Source: Observadora
