Alfredo Nobre da Costa

? Jorge Alfredo Nobre da Costa / i [ nɔbɾɯ dɐ kɔʃtɐ ] ( born September 10, 1923 in Lapa, † February 4, 1996 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese politician and prime minister.

Nobre da Costa graduated in engineering in Lisbon and London. He then worked for many years as an employee and Consulting Engineer of the Champalimaud industrial holding, Portugal's second largest financial empire.

As an independent expert, but this was attributed to the center-left, he was appointed on 25 March 1977 in the first cabinet of Mário Soares as Minister of Industry and Technology. This office he held until December 9, 1977.

Following the resignation of Soares, he is surprisingly appointed on 28 August 1978 by President António Ramalho Eanes the Prime Minister and ( da República Assembleia ) commissioned by the end of the four -year session of the Republican Assembly of running a government. There, however, he managed not to get a parliamentary majority, so that he was forced to resign from his post already on November 22, 1978 and was replaced by Carlos Mota Pinto.

Nobre da Costa, an avid bridge player, was 1966-1967 President of the Portuguese bridge player Federal FPB He married in 1951 Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho, with whom he had a daughter and a son.

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