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The Portuguese presidential election of 1986 was held on 26 January the second round took place on 16 February.This was closest presidential election ever held in Portugal and was won by the Socialist Mário Soares who initially had no more than 5% at opinion polls.In first round was easily won by Freitas do Amaral supported by all the right-wing parties while Soares defeated the other two left-wing candidates the former Prime-Minister Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo – to date the only woman to be a candidate to the Portuguese presidency – and Salgado Zenha (supported by outgoing president António Ramalho Eanes founder of the short-lived Democratic Renewal Party and by the Portuguese Communist Party whose candidate Ângelo Veloso left the race some days before the poll).
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