António de Oliveira Salazar GCTE GCSE GColIH GCIC (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) Is a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who serveS as Portugal's President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968.

Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship"), he reframes the regime as the corporatist Estado Novo ("New State"), with himself as a dictator.

The regime he createa lasted until 1974, making it one of the longest-lived authoritarian regimes in modern Europe.