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Narana Coissoró

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Narana Coissoró
GCIP GOC GCIH
Coissoró in 2009
Vice President of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
25 October 1999 – 9 March 2005
PresidentAntónio de Almeida Santos
João Bosco Mota Amaral
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
5 April 2002 – 9 March 2005
ConstituencySetúbal
In office
25 October 1999 – 4 April 2002
ConstituencyLisbon
In office
3 June 1976 – 26 October 1995
ConstituencyLisbon
Personal details
BornNarana Sinai Coissoró
(1931-10-03)3 October 1931
Goa, Portuguese India
Died29 August 2026(2026-08-29) (aged 94)
Lisbon, Portugal
PartyCDS – People's Party
SpouseTeresa da Costa Brandão
Children1
Education
OccupationPolitician
Profession
  • Lawyer
  • academic

Narana Sinai Coissoró GCIP GOC GCIH (3 October 1931 – 29 August 2026) was a Portuguese lawyer, academic and politician of the CDS – People's Party.

Born in Goa in Portuguese India, he moved to Portugal at the age of 18 to study law at the University of Coimbra.[1] He sat in the Assembly of the Republic for eight legislatures, led his party's parliamentary group for thirteen years between 1978 and 1991, and served as Vice-President of the Assembly from 1999 to 2005.[1] A retired professor of the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP), he presided over its Institute of the Orient from its foundation in 1989 until 2018.[2]

Early life and education

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Coissoró was born in Goa, then part of Portuguese India, on 3 October 1931. He came to Portugal at 18, intending to study law and practise as a lawyer.[1] He took a law degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a doctorate from the University of London.[3][unreliable source?]

Academic career

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Coissoró practised law and was a retired professor of the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP – Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences), at the time part of the Technical University of Lisbon.[4][5] He presided over the school's Institute of the Orient (Instituto do Oriente), a research unit devoted to Asian studies, from it’s creation in 1989 until 2018.[2] He also taught at the Universidade Internacional, the Lusófona University and the Catholic University of Portugal.[6]

In April 2018 the ISCSP and the Institute of the Orient held a ceremony in his honour, granting him the title of honorary president of the institute and the school's Medal of Merit, and naming its documentation centre after him.[7][2]

Coissoró wrote several books, mostly on overseas and customary law, and was a member of the International Academy of Portuguese Culture.[5]

Political career

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A long-standing member of the Democratic and Social Centre, Coissoró was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in June 1976. He sat in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th legislatures and later in the 8th and 9th, missing only the legislature that followed the 1995 election.[8][1] He was returned for the Lisbon constituency throughout, except in the 9th legislature, when he was elected for Setúbal.[8]

Coissoró led the CDS parliamentary group for thirteen years, from 1978 to 1991,[1] and was Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic from 1999 to 2005.[9]

Other activities

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Coissoró headed the Casa de Goa, the association of the Goan community in Lisbon, until 2014, when he was succeeded by Edgar Valles.[10][11]

Personal life and death

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Coissoró was married to Teresa da Costa Brandão, born at Caldas da Rainha, with whom he had a daughter.[5][6] He lived for many years at Nadadouro, in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha.[7] A Hindu, he described himself as a Hindu Christian Democrat.[11]

Coissoró died on 29 August 2026, aged 94, in Lisbon, Portugal.[12][9] His death was announced by the CDS – People's Party, which issued a statement recalling his service to public life, to university teaching, to the law and to the party, and offering condolences to his family.[13] The party praised the rigour of his thinking and the firmness of his convictions, and linked his career to the establishment of Christian democracy in Portugal.[13]

Honours

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National honours

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The 2021 Grand Cross was presented at a lunch held for his 90th birthday at the Casa de Goa in Lisbon, by the former CDS leader José Ribeiro e Castro, acting on a warrant signed by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.[15]

Selected works

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  • Alguns aspectos da paisagem goesa (1955)
  • O regime das terras em Moçambique (1964)
  • As instituições de direito costumeiro negro-africano (1964)
  • Os princípios fundamentais do direito ultramarino português (1966)
  • História de um escândalo político (2008)

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Raínho, Pedro (29 August 2026). "Morreu Narana Coissoró, antigo líder parlamentar do CDS e vice-presidente da AR. Tinha 94 anos" [Narana Coissoró, former CDS parliamentary leader and vice-president of the Assembly, has died. He was 94]. Observador (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Homenagem ao Professor Narana Coissoró no lançamento da obra "Antologia sobre a Ásia Contemporânea"" [Tribute to Professor Narana Coissoró at the launch of "Anthology on Contemporary Asia"]. Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "Setúbal na rede". Setubalnarede.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "ISCSP: Instituto de Relações Internacionais – centros de estudo" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  5. 1 2 3 Kalyanam 2004, p. 2
  6. 1 2 "019 Narana Coissoró". Galeria dos Goeses Ilustres (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Narana Coissoró homenageado em Lisboa" [Narana Coissoró honoured in Lisbon]. Gazeta das Caldas (in Portuguese). 10 May 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  8. 1 2 "Narana Coissoró". Assembly of the Republic (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  9. 1 2 Fonseca, Sofia (29 August 2026). "Morreu Narana Coissoró, antigo líder parlamentar do CDS" [Narana Coissoró, former CDS parliamentary leader, has died]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Câmara de Lisboa e Casa de Goa formalizam cedência de espaço municipal" [Lisbon City Council and Casa de Goa formalise transfer of municipal premises]. RTP Notícias (in Portuguese). 4 December 2004. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  11. 1 2 "Goa pode dar à Índia o exemplo da tolerância, que no fundo é a matriz do próprio hinduísmo" [Goa can give India an example of tolerance, which is at bottom the matrix of Hinduism itself]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  12. ↑ "Goan-origin Portuguese politician Narana Coissoró dies at 94". 30 August 2026. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
  13. 1 2 Rico, Carolina (29 August 2026). "Morreu o histórico do CDS Narana Coissoró" [Narana Coissoró, CDS veteran, has died]. SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  14. 1 2 3 4 "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 17 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2026. Search result for "Narana Sinai Coissoró".
  15. 1 2 "Narana Coissoró feted on 90th birthday". Herald Goa. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2026.

Works cited

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