Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes is a Portuguese lawyer and politician,who is the current Mayor of Figueira da Foz. He most notably served as prime minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005.
Since the beginning of liberalism in Portugal in the 19th century,several parties have,by gaining representation in parliament,continued the liberal ideology in contemporary Portuguese politics. But after the initial fervor of the Liberal Revolution of 1820 and the outcome of the Liberal Wars (1828–1834) during the 19th century,liberalism was relegated to a secondary role in Portuguese politics and government and even outlawed for periods of time. The first fully-fledged liberal party founded as such to have a seat in the Portuguese Parliament since the end of the First Portuguese Republic (1910–1926),was the Liberal Initiative,in 2019.
JoséSócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa,commonly known as JoséSócrates,is a Portuguese politician who was the prime minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011. For the second half of 2007,he acted as the president-in-office of the Council of the European Union.
Rui Fernando da Silva Rio is a Portuguese economist and retired politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was the Mayor of Porto from 2002 to 2013. Between 2018 and 2022,he was President of the PSD and Leader of the Opposition.
Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho is a Portuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the 118th prime minister of Portugal,in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) between 2010 and 2018.
The 2011 Portuguese legislative election was held on 5 June,to elect all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic. Pedro Passos Coelho led the centre-right Social Democratic Party to victory over the Socialist Party,led by incumbent Prime Minister JoséSócrates. Despite a historically low turnout of less than 60% of registered voters,the right-wing won a clear mandate,winning nearly 130 MPs,more than 56% of the seats,and just over 50% of the vote. While the People's Party,continuing the trend they began in 2009,earned their best score since 1983,the Social Democrats exceeded the expected result in the opinion polls and won the same number of seats as they did in 2002,when the PSD was led by JoséManuel Durão Barroso. Of the twenty districts of the country,Pedro Passos Coelho's party won seventeen,including Lisbon,Porto,Faro,Portalegre,Castelo Branco,Coimbra,Santarém and the Azores,that tend to favor the Socialist Party.
Miguel Bento Martins da Costa Macedo e Silva is a Portuguese lawyer,politician,and a former Minister of Internal Administration.
The 2015 Portuguese legislative election was held on 4 October. All 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic were in contention.
Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 24 January 2016. The election chose the successor to the President Aníbal Cavaco Silva,who was constitutionally not allowed to run for a third consecutive term.
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested.
The following lists events in the year 2015 in Portugal.
Events in the year 2017 in Portugal.
Graça Maria da Fonseca Caetano Gonçalves is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister António Costa since 15 October 2018. Fonseca graduated with a law degree from the University of Lisbon,has a master's degree in economics from the University of Coimbra,and obtained a PhD in sociology from ISCTE –University Institute of Lisbon. From 26 November 2015 to 15 October 2018,Fonseca served as Secretary of State Assistant and of Administrative Modernisation.
The 2021 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 27 November. If no candidate achieved more than 50% of the votes in the first round,a second round would be held between the two most voted candidates in the first round on 1 December,however,as only two candidates will be on the ballot,a second round will not be necessary. The original date for the first round was 4 December,but the party decided to advance the date by a week.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Portugal in January 2026. The elections will elect the successor to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,who is barred from running for a third term.
The 2022 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 28 May 2022. If no candidate achieved more than 50% of the votes in the first round,a second round would be held between the two most voted candidates in the first round on 4 June 2022,however,as only two candidates were on the ballot,Luís Montenegro and Jorge Moreira da Silva,a second round was not necessary.
Luís Filipe Montenegro Cardoso de Morais Esteves is a Portuguese politician who currently serves as the President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD),and is the Prime Minister-designate of Portugal.
Snap legislative elections were held on 10 March 2024 to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 16th Legislature of Portugal. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election. The elections were called in November 2023 after Prime Minister António Costa's resignation following an investigation around alleged corruption involving the award of contracts for lithium and hydrogen businesses.
Patrícia Dantas is a Mozambique-born Portuguese economist and politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in January 2022,as a representative of the Madeira constituency.
Members of Parliament in the 2024 Portuguese legislative election will be elected in a closed list proportional representation system. Each constituency in Portugal elects a certain number of MPs depending on their number of registered voters. This number ranges from a minimum of 2 MPs in Portalegre to 48 in Lisbon. In this page,the names of the head candidates by party and/or coalition for each constituency will be listed. The leader of each party/coalition is displayed in bold.
