Rui Tavares was born in Lisbon on 29 July 1972,to a bank clerk (and occasionally shepherd) father and a homemaker mother. Tavares had two older half-siblings (born of his father's first marriage;cut short when he became a widower) and two older siblings.[3]
The family was originally from the small rural village of Arrifana,in Azambuja,in the Ribatejo Province,where Tavares spent part of his childhood. The area had a significant labour movement background,influenced by republicanism and anarcho-syndicalism in the early 20th century:the anti-christian spirit of the First Portuguese Republic saw the local parish priest temporarily banished from the town and,unusually for the traditionally Catholic country,it then gained a significant Evangelical Baptist population. The Protestant denomination was indirectly introduced in the town by an atheist great-uncle of Tavares,who invited a Baptist pastor to the village to spite the Catholic hierarchy.[3]
Living with his parents and his next older brother,Tavares attended primary school in Arrifana;of his much older siblings,his sister was already married at the time,and the two other brothers were attending university,one in Lisbon and the other in Czechoslovakia (sponsored by the Portuguese Communist Youth,of which he was a member).[3] Tavares's next older brother attended secondary school in Azambuja and used to bring him books from the school library;by his own admission,Tavares was "bookish" ever since his mother taught him how to read,and he took great pride in having read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at this time "as they should be read:perched up in a tree".[3] He became interested in politics at around age 11 or 12,when he started reading anything he could on the different political ideologies at the Municipal Library in Penha de França,and became fascinated with anarchism and left-libertarianism.[3]
In June 2013,he was commissioned by the European Parliament to submit a report on Hungarian constitutional concerns. The Tavares Report urged the Hungarian authorities "to implement as swiftly as possible all the measures the European Commission as the guardian of the treaties deems necessary in order to fully comply with EU law... [and with] the decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court and... the recommendations of the Venice Commission,the Council of Europe and other international bodies…".[6]
LIVRE
Rui Tavares speaks during the 10th Congress of LIVRE,in 2021
In the 2021 local elections,Tavares was elected member of the Lisbon City Council.[7] Tavares had run alongside incumbent Mayor Fernando Medina on the electoral list of the "Mais Lisboa" coalition (Socialist Party and LIVRE),to be the councillor with the "Human Rights,Knowledge,Science,and Culture" portfolio on a Socialist-led City Council. The majority,however,was won by the "Novos Tempos" coalition (PSD/CDS–PP/Alliance/MPT/PPM);Tavares stated his intention to serve as opposition within the City Council to the new centre-right Mayor,Carlos Moedas.[8]
↑ "Mapa Oficial n.º 1/2022"(PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 26 March 2022. Archived(PDF) from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
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