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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 189 /X

NATIONAL PANTHEON HONOURS FOR AQUILINO RIBEIRO

Aquilino Ribeiro is one of the greatest figures in Portuguese literature of all the centuries.

Born September 13, 1885, in the village of Carregal, Sernancelhe's concelho,

passed away in Lisbon, on May 27, 1963, and his remains find themselves

buried in the tallion of the writers at the Cemetery of Prazeres, in Lisbon.

His biography repairs, with the vicissitudes of literary creation and intervention

civics, by their native Beira, by France, by Germany, by Lisbon, by Oeiras, by the

Galizes. His oeuvre, densely elaborated in one of the richest examples of construction

vocabular and syntactic of the prose in Portuguese language, attest to the greatness of the citizen and of the

writer in its universal projection.

Master among masters in the use of Portuguese, Aquilino Ribeiro legates us the strong conviction

of their attachment to the land, to nature, to man and to woman, to life, to the country and to the world.

The high literary value of the oeuvre of Aquilino Ribeiro justifies, fully, that the

Undersigned MPs subscribe to the following:

Draft Resolution

The Assembly of the Republic, pursuant to Article 166º (5) of the Constitution and of paragraph 1

of Article 3º of Law No 28/2000 of November 29 resolves the following:

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1. Homenagate the memory of the writer Aquilino Ribeiro and grant to his remains

mortals the honours of the National Pantheon.

2. Constituting a commission, composed of representatives of each group

parliamentarian, with the incumbency to determine the date, define and guide the

program of the trasladation.

3. Mandate the President of the Assembly of the Republic to, listened to the committee

referred to in 2., designate a working group with the purpose of ensuring the

execution of trasladation, in articulation with the remaining public entities

involved.

Lisbon, on March 8, 2007

The Deputies,