Economy professor and former prime minister Anibal Cavaco Silva won the presidential election in Portugal on Sunday (22 January), promising to take Portugal out of a stagnant financial situation and to secure political stability.
With a convincing 50.6 percent of votes in Sunday's election, Mr Cavaco Silva will be the first non-socialist president since democracy was established in Portugal after the 1974 revolution.
In his victory speech he promised to fight for political stabi...
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