Luís Filipe Menezes

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Maria Cândida Valanzuela de Sampayo Tavares
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(m. 1980;div. 2010)​
Ana Luísa Caetano
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(m. 2015)​
Luís Filipe Menezes
Luis Filipe Menezes.jpg
President of the Social Democratic Party
In office
12 October 2007 –20 June 2008
Children4
Alma mater University of Porto

Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes (born 2 November 1953) is a Portuguese politician.

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Background

He is a son of José António Lopes (Porto, Alvar, 10 September 1925 –), an Industrialist (son and paternal grandson of cattle dealers and maternal grandson and great-grandson of farmers and maternal grandson of an exposed daughter of unknown parents), and wife (m. Coimbra, Sé Nova, 11 December 1949) Maria Helena de Menezes Borges (Viseu, Abraveses, Aguieira, 15 April 1928 – 10 March 2015), a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto and a High School Teacher, whose paternal grandfather was Spanish and whose mother was from the local Nobility.

Career

He is a Licentiate in Medicine specialized in pediatrics from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.

He started his career as a medical doctor.

Affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and from 1997 to 2013 he was Mayor of the Municipal Chamber of Vila Nova de Gaia (in Greater Porto subregion), one of the most populated Portuguese municipalities.

He was leader of the Social Democratic Party between 12 October 2007 and 20 June 2008. [1] He was elected after Luís Marques Mendes and was succeeded by Manuela Ferreira Leite.

Meneses is considered a populist, his policies as mayor were equally populist and his victory over Marques Mendes is considered a victory of populism in the SDP, [2] as there was a clear difference between the positions of both, having Meneses a more politically correct and pro-people position in most matters, although with a sightly neoliberal stance on the health care system, and a liberal conservative position towards gay rights. [3]

Luis Filipe Menezes is considered as a modern politician. [4] He had the best score in the Municipality elections of October 2009.

Family

He married Civilly at the 2nd Conservatory of the Civil Register of Porto on 20 March 1980 and Religiously in Porto, Bonfim, on 7 May 1980 to Maria Cândida Valanzuela de Sampayo Tavares (Porto, Ramalde, 7 November 1956), daughter of Amândio Gómez de Sampayo Tavares (Porto, Cedofeita, 26 December 1928 –), a Cathedratic Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, etc., and the Proprietor of the House of O Carballal in San Cristovo de Mourentán, Arbo, Pontevedra, Galicia, son of a Galician mother, and wife (m. 11 September 1952) María del Carmen Valanzuela y Simón (30 July 1923 –), a Galician paternal granddaughter of an unknown paternal grandfather, and had issue, three sons:

He married on 10 March 2015 lawyer Ana Luísa Caetano. They have one son: [5]

Electoral history

Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 1997

Ballot: 14 December 1997
PartyCandidateVotes%Seats+/−
PSD Luís Filipe Menezes64,04446.76+2
PS José Carvalheiras 56,75741.45–1
CDU –10,1517.40–1
Other parties1,8781.40±0
Blank/Invalid ballots4,2453.1––
Turnout137,07561.7811±0
Source: Autárquicas 1997 [6]

Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2001

Ballot: 16 December 2001
PartyCandidateVotes%Seats+/−
PSD/CDS–PP Luís Filipe Menezes78,54959.98+2
PS Jorge Strecht Ribeiro 37,07828.33–2
CDU –8,1926.30±0
BE –1,5704.90new
PH –6014.90new
Blank/Invalid ballots4,4603.4––
Turnout131,10957.6911±0
Source: Autárquicas 2001 [7]

PSD leadership election, 2005

Ballot: 9 April 2005
CandidateVotes%
Luís Marques Mendes 49756.6
Luís Filipe Menezes 38143.4
Turnout878
Source: PSD Congress [8]

Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2005

Ballot: 9 October 2005
PartyCandidateVotes%Seats+/−
PSD/CDS–PP Luís Filipe Menezes77,97155.07–1
PS Manuel Barbosa Ribeiro 39,65728.03±0
CDU Ilda Figueiredo 11,7818.31+1
BE Alda Sousa 5,3273.80±0
Other parties1,4861.10±0
Blank/Invalid ballots5,6164.0––
Turnout141,83860.7311±0
Source: Autárquicas 2005Autárquicas 2005 [9] [10]

PSD leadership election, 2007

Ballot: 28 September 2007
CandidateVotes%
Luís Filipe Menezes 21,10153.6
Luís Marques Mendes 16,97343.1
Blank/Invalid ballots1,2793.3
Turnout39,35362.42
Source: Diretas 2007 [11]

Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2009

Ballot: 11 October 2009
PartyCandidateVotes%Seats+/−
PSD/CDS–PP Luís Filipe Menezes92,48662.08+1
PS Joaquim Couto 37,79025.33±0
CDU Ilda Figueiredo 9,3986.30–1
BE João Semedo 4,8283.20±0
MPT Nuno Aldeia 9930.70±0
Blank/Invalid ballots3,7332.5––
Turnout149,22859.7111±0
Source: Autárquicas 2009 [12]

Porto City Council election, 2013

Ballot: 29 September 2013
PartyCandidateVotes%Seats+/−
Ind. Rui Moreira 45,41139.36+6
PS Manuel Pizarro 26,23722.73–2
PSD/PPM/MPT Luís Filipe Menezes24,36621.13–2
CDU Pedro Carvalho 8,5397.41±0
BE José Soeiro 4,1663.60±0
Other parties1,8771.60±0
Blank/Invalid ballots5,1024.4––
Turnout115,698 52.6013±0
Source: Autárquicas 2013 [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Luís Filipe Menezes, PSD".
  2. ↑ "Meneses no PSD (Meneses in the SDP)".
  3. ↑ "PSD: Mendes e Menezes em pseudo-debate (SPD: Mendes and Menezes in pseudo-debate)". (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ "Confraria Laranja". (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ "Luís Filipe Menezes só tem olhos para o filho". VIP. 15 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Autárquicas 1997" (PDF). Diário da República. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "Autárquicas 2001" (PDF). Diário da República. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
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