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08 January 2017 [12:26] - Today.Az
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Ex-Portuguese President Mario Soares - regarded as a father of the country's democracy - has died at the age of 92, BBC reported. Mr Soares was prime minister between 1976 and 1978, in the aftermath of the "Carnation Revolution" that ended decades of right-wing dictatorship. A Socialist, he returned as PM in the early 1980s and served as president between 1986 and 1996. He had been admitted to hospital in Lisbon last month following a "general worsening of his health", doctors said. He played in a key role after the 1974 Carnation Revolution, a military coup that put an end to 48 years of dictatorship. A fierce critic of the junta that ruled Portugal for the next two years, Mr Soares in 1976 became the first post-war democratically elected prime minister.
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