Ernâni Rodrigues Lopes (20 February 1942

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– 2 December 2010) was a Portuguese

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and

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. He served as

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from 1983 until 1985 in the government of former

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Mário Soares Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portugal, Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the List of Presidents of P ...

. Ernâni Lopes died of lymphoma in

, Portugal, on 2 December 2010, at the age of 68.

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