Lisbon: Jorge Tuko, former Portuguese president two terms and one of the most prominent political figures from his generation, has died.
He is 81 years old.
The current Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced death until Friday.
He did not give the cause of death, even though he was in a subtle health for several years and had been hospitalized for the past two weeks.
Suddenly “preparing himself to become a fighters, and his fight banner was freedom and equality,” Rebelo de Sousa said in a statement broadcast on television.
He said until it was like a “red haired hurricane” in the 1960s when he was a young lawyer he stood for Portugal dictatorship.
But for six decades of his political career in Portugal as the Socialist left-center and later as a diplomat for the United Nations, until it received praise for his low attitude, down-to-earth.
He once said he always wanted to be an orchestral conductor.
At home, untilo might remember most because controversial lowered the middle-right government in 2004, when he was the head of state.
That’s when the leader of the Democratic Party Jose Manuel Barroso stopped as the prime minister to become president of the European Commission.
He was replaced by his party’s vice president, Pedro Santana Lopes.
After several months the government in battle, general failure and contradiction, suddenly said the initial election to end what he called “crisis credibility and instability.” The next election delivered a landslide victory to the Left of Center Socialist Party, which until he had headed.
Tuko began his political career while studying the law at Lisbon University in the late 1950s, up through the ranks of underground students who opposed the dictatorship Antonio Salazar.
After graduating, he defended the detainees to try special trials handled exclusively with political cases.
He was related to the extreme left movement after the 1974 carnation revolution added the dictatorship and introduced democracy.
He took his first government post, as the Secretary of State for foreign cooperation, in 1975.
He was fluent in English, after living for one year in the United States when he was eight years old as his father, a famous Portuguese doctor, went to study at the University of Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
As, whose mother is an English teacher, also spends time in England as a young man.
He transferred his loyalty to the mainstream socialist party in 1978 and since the following year it was returned five times to Parliament as a member of the socialist parliament.
Tuko ran successfully for Mayor Lisbon, the capital, in 1979, and 10 years later became the leader of the Socialist Party.
It took two terms as the Mayor of Portuguese capital giving a stage for his election as president in 1996 and the re-election in 2006, won both elections with comfortable margins.
The Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan referred to as an envoy, especially in TB in 2006.
The following year, the successor of Annan, Ban Ki-moon made him high representative high for the civilization alliance.
Sungano survived his wife, a daughter and a son.