Worst Portuguese Ever

RTP has created an uproar with its poll of the greatest Portuguese, mostly because of the names missing from the list of candidates. It's a tough choice for any nation, especially remembering that great statesmen and reformers have the human trait of getting senile or just plain unpleasant in their old age. After only 16 years in Portugal and with my studies of Portuguese history only up to studying Year 8 with my elder son, I am going to abstain.

SIC's reaction was to launch a poll to discover the worst Portuguese of all times. That's easier for me. After all these years of observing incompetent, obnoxious public figures raking in millions for themselves without giving a damn for the public who put them there, there is one who stands out from the crowd: Pedro Santana Lopes.