The government mourns the death of Pedro Cruz and remembers him as a “professional by vocation.”

Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel this Sunday mourned the death of 53-year-old journalist Pedro Cruz, remembering him as a “professional by vocation.”

The ruler spoke at the 31st Congress of the SDS-PP in Viseu as a minister and also as vice-president of the PSD.

“It is with great regret that we learned this Sunday of the death of Pedro Cruz, a great journalist, a man of great affability, a professional by vocation, who was from the generation of the Prime Minister and mine,” he lamented.

The Social Democrat said he received the news with “a huge shock.”

“On behalf of the Portuguese government, I wanted to express our condolences to the family, as well as to all Portuguese journalists. Because I think he represented the professional class well,” he said.

Journalist Pedro Cruz died this Sunday at the age of 53 from lung cancer at the CUF Tejo hospital in Lisbon, as his relatives confirmed to Lusa.

Pedro Cruz was currently the Director of Global Media as well as the Director of TSF Radio. He distinguished himself in the service of the SIC, where he worked from the late 90s (1998/99) to 2021 and held the positions of coordinator of the Porto newsroom and deputy director of information for the channel.

Political and international areas were the ones he followed most closely, having been present in various situations of conflict and international tension, namely in Kosovo, Syria, Albania, Haiti, Lebanon or Ukraine.