Os Piores Portugueses
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Os Piores Portugueses (lit. The Worst Portuguese) is a vote organized by the debate program Eixo do Mal of SIC Notícias to determine the Portuguese who did more for the country's ruin. The vote runs in parallel with the vote for the Greatest Portuguese (Os Grandes Portugueses).
On 13 February 2007, António de Oliveira Salazar was named the worst Portuguese ever.
[edit] Candidates
| Name | Lived | GP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afonso Henriques | 1109?-1185 | first King of Portugal and de facto founder of the country; nominated for that exact reason | 4 |
| Álvaro Cunhal | 1913-2005 | historical leader of the Portuguese Communist Party | 2 |
| Aníbal Cavaco Silva | 1939- | current President of Portugal, former Prime Minister of Portugal | 27 |
| António Guterres | 1949- | former Prime Minister of Portugal | - |
| António de Oliveira Salazar | 1889-1970 | dictatorial Prime Minister of Portugal during the Estado Novo, repressed democratic movements and involved Portugal in a costly colonial war in Africa | 1 |
| the horse of Afonso, Crown Prince of Portugal | fl. 1491 | by falling and killing the heir of the throne and husband to the heiress of Castile and Aragon, prevented the union of the Iberian kingdoms under Portuguese hegemony | - |
| José Manuel Durão Barroso | 1956- | former Prime Minister of Portugal, left office to become President of the European Commission, leaving Pedro Santana Lopes as successor | - |
| Mário Soares | 1924- | former Prime Minister of Portugal and President of Portugal | 12 |
| King Sebastian | 1554-1578 | boy-king who got involved in a civil war in a Muslim country he understood nothing about (Morocco) and fell in the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, effectively ending the dinasty and putting the country under Spanish domination | - |
| Sister Lúcia | 1907-2005 | allegedly talked with the Virgin Mary at Fátima in 1917, nun | 89 |
