Vasco da Gama Fernandes
Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly | |
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| In office 2 June 1975 – 2 April 1976 | |
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| Born | 4 November 1908 São Vicente, Portuguese Cape Verde |
| Died | 9 August 1991 (aged 82) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Spouse | Maria da Glória Ramos de Ataíde Fernandes |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
| Profession | Lawyer |
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Vasco da Gama Fernandes
Career
Vasco da Gama Fernandes was licensee in Law, from the faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and became a lawyer and politician. Distinguished as an oppositioner to Estado Novo, being arrested for several times by the political police (PIDE), he joined the Aliança Republicana e Socialista (ARS) and later to the Movimento de Unidade Nacional Antifascista (MUNAF). In 1945, he was one of the founders of the Movimento de Unidade Democrática (MUD), and also of the Partido Trabalhista in 1947 and the Socialist Party (PS) in 1973.[1][2]
After the
In 1979, he resigned from PS, joining then the Frente Republicana e Socialista (FRS) and later founded the
References
- ^ a b "Vasco da Gama Fernandes (1908–1991)" (in Portuguese). Assembly of the Republic. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
- ^ a b c d Assembly of the Republic (November 2008). Vasco da Gama Fernandes – Homenagem ao Primeiro Presidente da Assembleia da República no centésimo aniversário do seu nascimento (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon. p. 24. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
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