8 January 2009
Luanda — The speaker of the Angolan National Assembly (Parliament), Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Thursday in Luanda released a message of condolence for the death of the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party (PLD), Anália de Victoria Pereira Simeão, Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal.
"It was with deep consternation that I learnt of the death of the former National Assembly MP and president of the said party, Anália de Victória Pereira Simeão", reads the note delivered to Angop.
"May I, on my personal name and on behalf of the MPs, parliamentary officials and collaborators, pay, in this moment of grief and mourning, our homage, for her death", says the note.
Born on October 3, 1941, in Luanda, Anália de Vitória Pereira started her political career in 1975, the year she left the country for Portugal.
In 1983 she founded PLD, in Lisbon, along with her late husband, Carlos Simeão, also a politician and first leader of that party.
After 16 years of exile, Anália de Victória Pereira returned to Angola in 1991, to legalise the PLD and ran in the first multiparty elections of 1992.
She was also a member of the Council of the Republic, a consulting organ to the President of the Republic.
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