José Luís Nogueira de Brito, former CDS deputy, has died at the age of 88

José Luís Nogueira de Brito, who was a CDS deputy between 1983 and 1995, died this Monday, a few weeks after turning 88. The news was communicated by the party that he became parliamentary leader, in a note of regret.

Always elected by the Braga circle, In 1987, Nogueira de Brito was part of the famous bench of the “taxi party”, as the only four deputies became known – the others were Adriano Moreira, Narana Coissoró and Basílio Horta – that the CDS elected during the first absolute majority of the PSDunder the leadership of Cavaco Silva. Four years later, in 1991, the centrists elected just one more deputy, recovering electoral weight from 1995 onwards, under the leadership of Manuel Monteiro and Paulo Portas.

As a parliamentarian, Nogueira de Brito survived a plane crash in Angola, when he was returning from a congress of UNITA, a political party and military force, under the leadership of Jonas Savimbi, which was involved in the civil war in that Portuguese-speaking country.. The other deputies who were with him were the socialist João Soares and the then social democrat Rui Gomes da Silva.

In the note of condolence, his party highlighted that Nogueira de Brito “was throughout his life, personal and political, an example of decency, integrity, humanism and elevation, with total dedication to the values ​​of Christian democracy, public service and the Portuguese, having been one of the most brilliant and notable tribunes of the CDS-PP in the Assembly of the Republic”.