What is Mário Soares?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = <small>[[Excellency|His Excellency]]</small> |name = Mário Soares |honorific-suffix = <small>[[Order of the Tower and Sword|GColTE]] [[Order of Christ (Portugal)|GCC]] [[Order of Liberty|GColL]] [[Order of the Elephant|KE]]</small> |image = Mário Soares par Claude Truong-Ngoc 1978.png |caption = Mário Soares in 1978 |imagesize = |office1 = [[Member of the European Parliament]] |constituency1 = [[Portugal (European Parliament constituency)|Portugal]] |term_start1 = 20 July 1999 |term_end1 = 19 July 2004 |office2 = [[File:Coat of arms of Portugal.svg|40px]] <br/>[[List of Presidents of Portugal|17th President of Portugal]] |term_start2 = 9 March 1986 |term_end2 = 9 March 1996 |primeminister2 = [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]]<br />[[António Guterres]] |predecessor2 = [[António Ramalho Eanes]] |successor2 = [[Jorge Sampaio]] |office3 = [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] |term_start3 = 9 June 1983 |term_end3 = 6 November 1985 |president3 = [[António Ramalho Eanes]] |deputy3 = [[Carlos Mota Pinto]]<br>Rui Machete |predecessor3 = [[Francisco Pinto Balsemão]] |successor3 = [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]] |term_start4 = 23 July 1976 |term_end4 = 28 August 1978 |president4 = [[António Ramalho Eanes]] |predecessor4 = [[Vasco de Almeida e Costa]] |successor4 = [[Alfredo Nobre da Costa]] |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1924|12|07}} |birth_name = Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares |birth_place = [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]] |death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2017|1|7|1924|12|7}} |death_place = Lisbon, Portugal |party = '''National:'''<br>[[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]]<br>'''European:'''<br>[[Party of European Socialists]] |spouse = [[Maria Barroso]] |children = 2 |profession = [[Lawyer]]<br>[[Historian]]<br>[[Professor]] |signature = |footnotes = }} '