Mario Soares Arrival Of The Coffinto Jeronimos

LISBON, PORTUGAL - JANUARY 09: Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (C) is greeted by the President of the Assembly of the Republic Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues (R) and Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation Maria Manuel Leitao Marques (L) as he arrives to wait for Mario Soares' draped coffinto be carried by members of the Republican National Guard into Monastery of Jeronimos on January 9, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Mario Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996, died on January 7. Portuguese Government decreed three days of national mourning. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)