António Joaquim Almeida Henriques (5 May 1961 – 4 April 2021) was a Portuguese politician and lawyer. A member of the

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, he served as

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from 2013 until his death in 2021, and as a member of the Assembly of the Republic from 2002 to 2011. He served as Deputy State Secretary for Economy and Regional Development in the XIX Constitutional Government of Portugal from 2011 to 2013. He was also vice-president of the from 2005 to 2010. António Almeida Henriques died of

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in Viseu, on 4 April 2021, at the age of 59.

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