<page_title> List of Prime Ministers of Portugal </page_title> <section_title> Third Republic (1974–present) </section_title> <table> <cell> Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (1924–2017) <col_header> Portrait </col_header> <col_header> Provisional Governments of the Revolutionary Period (1974–1976) </col_header> <col_header> Prime Ministers heading Constitutional Governments (1976–Present) </col_header> </cell> <cell> 23 July 1976 <col_header> Name (Birth–Death) </col_header> <col_header> Provisional Governments of the Revolutionary Period (1974–1976) </col_header> <col_header> Prime Ministers heading Constitutional Governments (1976–Present) </col_header> </cell> <cell> Socialist <col_header> Term of office — Electoral mandates </col_header> <col_header> Provisional Governments of the Revolutionary Period (1974–1976) </col_header> <col_header> Prime Ministers heading Constitutional Governments (1976–Present) </col_header> </cell> </table>
Soares of the Socialist party became Prime Minister in 1976.