Education
University of Lisbon.
University of Lisbon.
He was named after his most remote relative Vasco da Gama. Vasco da Gama Fernandes was licensee in Law, from the faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and became a lawyer and politician. In 1945, he was one of the founders of the Movimento de Unidade Democrática (MUD), and also of the Partido Trabalhista in 1947 and the Socialist Party (Personal) in 1973.
Foreign this party he was again elected deputy in the legislative elections of 1985 and 1987.
Distinguished as an oppositioner to Estado Novo, being arrested for several times by the political police (PIDE), he joined the Aliança Republicana e Socialista (ARS) and later to the Movimento de Unidade Nacional Antifascista (MUNAF). In 1979, he resigned from Personal, joining then the Frente Republicana e Socialista (Federal Reserve System) and later founded the Democratic Renovator Party (Party of the Democratic Revolution).
After the Carnation Revolution, he was elected a deputy and vice-president of the Constituent Assembly for Personal and, when reelected to the Assembly of the Republic, he also became its 1st President from 29 July 1976 to 29 October 1978, also becoming inherently a member of the Portuguese Council of State.
