Alda Santos Victor
Portuguese politician
Alda Soares de Melo Cardoso dos Santos Victor (born 1921 or 1922) was one of the so-called "Magnificent Five" Portuguese women who were elected in December 1976 as municipal mayors in the first election for mayors in Portugal after the April 1974 Carnation Revolution. She was re-elected on two further occasions.
Early life
Victor was born in Aveiro in 1921 or 1922. She married a magistrate in 1940 and travelled around the country, accompanying him on his various postings for 14 years before moving to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. The couple had one daughter.
Political career
At the time of the 1976 municipal elections, she received a delegation from the centre-right CDS – People's Party from Vagos, a municipality in the Aveiro District, who asked her to consider running for election as mayor. Their preference was apparently for her husband, who came from the village of Soza in the municipality, but as he had had connections with the Estado Novo regime that had been overthrown by the Carnation Revolution, he was barred from being a candidate. She campaigned very little, had no experience of public speaking and was at home in Lisbon when she found out that she had been elected. Initially, she continued to live in Lisbon, because of her husband's job, commuting to Vagos every week and returning to Lisbon for the weekend.
Victor became one of the so-called "Magnificent Five", the five women who were elected to become mayors in 1976.
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