Álvaro Laborinho Lúcio, former Minister of Justice, passed away in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 83.
The announcement was made by CNN Portugal and confirmed by Manuel Sequeira, the Mayor of Nazaré. According to the mayor, Laborinho Lúcio’s body will be placed in a chapel in Coimbra before being transported to another chapel in Nazaré, located in the district of Leiria.
Laborinho Lúcio, a retired Supreme Court Justice, served as Secretary of State for Judicial Administration and Minister of Justice during Cavaco Silva’s government from 1990 to 1995.
In 2003, he became Minister of the Republic for the Azores, a position he held until 2006 under the presidency of Jorge Sampaio.
He was also a Deputy Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Coimbra, an inspector of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Assistant Attorney General, and a director of the Judiciary Police School and the Center for Judicial Studies.
At the Nazaré Municipal Council, he was the President of the Municipal Assembly during the administration of Jorge Barroso (PSD).
More recently, he was a member of the Independent Commission for the Study of Sexual Abuse of Children in the Portuguese Catholic Church.
Álvaro Laborinho Lúcio was born in Nazaré on December 1, 1941. In his youth, he was an amateur actor and participated in the creation of the Nazaré Theatre Group.
He attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra, where he earned a degree in Law and completed the Complementary Course in Legal Sciences.
Laborinho Lúcio was a member of several associations, including APAV – Portuguese Association for Victim Support and CRESCER-SER, of which he is a founding member.
From 2013 to 2017, he served as President of the General Council of the University of Minho and was an elected member of the International Academy of Portuguese Culture.
Laborinho Lúcio made his debut in narrative fiction writing in 2014 with ‘O Chamador,’ published by Quetzal, which also released four more of his titles until last year: ‘O Homem que Escrevia Azulejos,’ ‘O Beco da Liberdade,’ ‘As Sombras de uma Azinheira,’ and the collection of chronicles and other texts ‘A Vida na Selva.’
Earlier this year, in March, he published the book “Marília ou a Justiça das Crianças” with Odete Severino Soares and illustrations by Catarina Sobral, under the Zigurate imprint.
In 2005, he was decorated by President Jorge Sampaio with the Grand Cross of the Order of Christ.
