O Independente (Portuguese for The Independent) was a Portuguese weekly newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1988 and 2006.
[1] O Independente was first published in May 1988[2][3] by Miguel Esteves Cardoso, who became its first editor, and Paulo Portas,[4] who succeeded him in 1990 and served until 1995 when he left to run for office as a conservative politician.
[5] O Independente was published by Recoletos weekly[1][6] on Fridays.
[7] The paper had a rightwing, conservative stance and a Eurosceptic discourse.
[4] The last edition of O Independente was published on 1 September 2006.