Jorge Sampaio
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio (; 18 September 1939 – 10 September 2021) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician who was the
18th President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006. Sampaio was a member of the
Socialist Party, a party which he led between 1989 and 1992. He served as the
Mayor of Lisbon from 1990 to 1995 and High-Representative for the United Nations'
Alliance of Civilizations between 2007 and 2013.
Sampaio was an opponent to the dictatorship of
Estado Novo. He participated in the student crisis in the 1960s and worked as a lawyer for political prisoners. During his presidency, Portugal relinquished its last colony,
Macau, to China. Sampaio also played an important role in the
1999 East Timorese crisis.
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