2017Mário Soares (1924-2017) (FDC S - First Day Cover

According to Medeiros Ferreira, “Mário Soares is the most important political gure in Portugal of recent decades,” adding: “When we were both on the Democratic Opposition ticket in 1965, I had no doubt I was dealing with the strongest political gure in the struggle against dictatorship. Once the regime was overthrown, almost everything would have to go through him.”