In the tradition of Ronald Reagan (the Greatest American Of All Time) and Pim Fortuyn (the Greatest Dutchperson Of All Time) comes the news that none other than Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has won a poll to choose the greatest Portuguese person ever.

The dictator of Portugal from 1933 to 1968 scored 40 per cent of the vote in the poll of the ten finalists. The runner up was a communist adversary of Salazar's, Alvaro Cunhal.

Inter Press Service takes up the story.