(10 Jan 2017) Spain's King Felipe VI and Brazilian President Michel Temer were among the dignitaries in Lisbon who attended the state funeral of Mario Soares, a former Portuguese leader who steered his country to democracy after a 1974 army coup toppled Portugal's four-decade dictatorship.
Soares was to be buried Tuesday at a cemetery in the capital after lying in state at the 16th-century Jeronimos monastery, a national monument.
Several thousand people filed past his open coffin.
The 92-year-old Soares died in a hospital Saturday after two weeks in a coma.
Portugal is observing three days of national mourning.
Soares was elected Portugal's first post-coup prime minister and later became Portugal's first civilian president in 60 years.
Soares grew into a global statesman through his work with the Socialist International movement.
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