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Guilherme Valdemar Pereira de Oliveira Martins (Lisbon, 23 September 1952) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. His great-great-great uncle was Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins.
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Guilherme Valdemar Pereira de Oliveira Martins (Lisbon, 23 September 1952) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. His great-great-great uncle was Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins.
Martins graduated with a law degree and master's degree in Juridical Economic Science and was an assistant professor at the Law Faculty, University of Lisbon, from 1977–1985. He was Juridical Consultant of the Ministry of Finance and Industry and Commerce between 1975 and 1986 and Director of Juridical Services of the Directorate General of the Treasury. Between 1987 and 1995 he was also a professor at the International University.
He was a founder of the Social Democratic Youth in 1974, and deputy secretary general of the Popular Democratic Party in 1975. He abandoned that party in April 1979, in a division that gave rise to the Independent Social Democrats Action. In the same year, he was called to perform duties as chief of António Sousa Franco’s Office, who was the Finance Minister of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo. In 1980 and 1983, he took his seat as Member of Parliament, elected by the Socialist Party.
In 1985, he was involved in the first presidential candidacy of Mário Soares, as a member of the Policy Committee and spokesman of MASP I - Movement of Support to the Soares’ Presidency. With the Soares’ victory, he was appointed political advisor to the Civil House of the President of the Republic until 1991. With António Guterres as prime minister, he held the positions of Secretary of State for Educational Administration, from 1995 to 1999, Minister of Education until 2000, of Finance between 2001 and 2002 and of the Presidency, between 2000 and 2002.
Among other positions he performed, the following may be detached as the representative of Parliament to the Convention on the Future of Europe, secretary general of the Portuguese Committee of the European Cultural Foundation, SEATS president and member of the Board of Directors of Mário Soares’ Foundation. He is currently President of the Court of Auditors, of the Council for the Prevention of Corruption and of the National Centre for Culture. He is Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty of the Lusíada University of Lisbon and of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the Lisbon Technical University. On 5 March 1996, he was awarded the Grand Officer Medal of the Order of D. Henrique Infant. He was appointed Honorary Member in 2013 of MIL: International Lusophone Movement.
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio was a Portuguese lawyer and politician who was the 18th president of Portugal from 1996 to 2006. A member of the Socialist Party, a party which he led between 1989 and 1992, he was the mayor of Lisbon from 1990 to 1995 and High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations between 2007 and 2013.
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first secretary-general of the Socialist Party, from its foundation in 1973 to 1986. A major political figure in Portugal, he is considered the father of Portuguese democracy.
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants from the Portuguese Socialist Action. The PS is a member of the Socialist International, Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists, and has nine members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 9th European Parliament. It is the governing party of Portugal since the 2022 legislative election.
Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, GCTE GCC GCIH ComA, is a retired Portuguese Army officer who was last Governor of Macau.
Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral, known as Freitas do Amaral, was a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 January 1980 to 12 January 1981 and from 12 March 2005 to 3 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s.
Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles was a Portuguese politician and landscape architect. He was born and died in Lisbon. He was a founder of the People's Monarchist Party in 1974, and led it until 1994, when he left the party. He later founded the ecologist movement Movimento Partido da Terra, now called MPT – Partido da Terra.
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António Luciano Pacheco de Sousa Franco, GCC, GCSE was a Portuguese economist and politician.
Kaúlza de Oliveira de Arriaga, OA, GCC, OC, OIH was a Portuguese general, writer, professor and politician. He was Secretary of State of the Air Force between 1953 and 1955 and commander of the Terrestrial Forces in Mozambique from 1969 until 1974 during the Mozambican War of Independence.
The Third Portuguese Republic is a period in the history of Portugal corresponding to the current democratic regime installed after the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, that put an end to the paternal autocratic regime of Estado Novo of António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcello Caetano. It was initially characterized by constant instability and was threatened by the possibility of a civil war during the early post-revolutionary years. A new constitution was drafted, censorship was prohibited, free speech declared, political prisoners were released and major Estado Novo institutions were closed. Eventually the country granted independence to its African colonies and begun a process of democratization that led to the accession of Portugal to the EEC in 1986.
António Sérgio de Sousa was an influential educationist, philosopher, journalist, sociologist and essayist from Portugal.
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC, GColL, GColIH is a Portuguese economist who served as the 19th president of Portugal, in office from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016. He had been previously prime minister of Portugal from 6 November 1985 to 28 October 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since António de Oliveira Salazar, and he was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is best known for leading Portugal into the European Union.
António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional, he reframed the regime as the Estado Novo, a corporatist dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 until 1974. Salazar was a political economy professor at University of Coimbra.
Sebastião Custódio de Sousa Teles, also known as Sebastião Teles, Sousa Teles, or in contemporary Portuguese as Sousa Telles, was a Portuguese politician and military officer. After a career in military logistics and education, he served multiple times as Minister of War, and briefly as President of the Council of Ministers from 11 April to 14 May 1909 during the penultimate year of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy.
The Ordem Militar de Cristo, the full name of which is the Military Order of Our Knights of Lord Jesus Christ, is a Portuguese honorific Order which takes its name from the extinct Order of Christ (1834), which is given for distinguished service in the performance of functions in sovereign positions or public administration, and for the judiciary and diplomacy, which is seen as being particularly distinguished.
Events in the year 2017 in Portugal.
Mário João de Oliveira Ruivo GOSE • GOIH • GCM, known as Mário Ruivo, was a Portuguese scientist and politician, a pioneer in the defense of the ocean and the environment in Portugal. He briefly held ministerial offices in the Portuguese government after the Carnation Revolution, but spend most of his career in senior positions in numerous governmental and non-governmental environmental agencies and scientific organisations.
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