O Independente

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O Independente
Type Weekly newspaper
Founder(s) Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Paulo Portas
PublisherRecoletos
FoundedMay 1988
Political alignmentRightwing, conservative
Language Portuguese
Ceased publication1 September 2006
Headquarters Lisbon

O Independente (Portuguese for The Independent) was a Portuguese weekly newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1988 and 2006. [1]

History and profile

O Independente was first published in May 1988 [2] [3] by Miguel Esteves Cardoso, who became its first editor, and Paulo Portas, [4] who succeeded him in 1990 and served until 1995 when he left to run for office as a conservative politician. [5]

O Independente was published by Recoletos weekly [1] [6] on Fridays. Its headquarters was in Lisbon. [7] The paper had a rightwing, conservative stance and a Eurosceptic discourse. [4]

The last edition of O Independente was published on 1 September 2006. [2] [4]

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