Álvaro Amaro

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Álvaro dos Santos Amaro (born May 25, 1953 in Coimbra or Ribamondego ) is a Portuguese economist and politician ( PSD ). Amaro has been active in the Portuguese Social Democratic Party for over 30 years and has held various offices for the party, including a member of the Portuguese Parliament (1987-2001), State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, and Mayor of Gouveia (2001-2013) and Guarda (2013-2019). He has been a member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections .

Life

Álvaro Amaro was born on May 25, 1953 in Coimbra (or according to other information in Ribamondego). After completing school, Amaro studied economics at the University of Coimbra , graduating in 1978.

Time as MP and State Secretary

After several years of professional activity, Amaro began working in November 1985 as an office manager for the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Fernando Nogueira , of the Cavaco Silva I cabinet . In the early parliamentary elections in 1987 , Amaro ran for a mandate in the elections to the Portuguese parliament in the constituency of Coimbra. He was re-elected in the 1991 elections (also in the Coimbra constituency), 1995 and 1999 (both in the Guarda constituency).

Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva appointed him for his second (1987-1991) and third cabinet (1991-1995) as State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. Amaro worked in this under the Agriculture Ministers Álvaro Barreto (1987–1990), Arlindo Cunha (1990–1994) and António Duarte Silva (1994–1995). After the socialists took over the government after the 1995 election, he devoted himself more to his parliamentary activities, and from 1995 to 1999 he headed the parliamentary committee for local administration, the environment and infrastructure ( Comissão Parlamentar do Poder Local, Ambiente e Equipamento Social ).

Mayor of Gouveia and Guarda

In the local elections in December 2001, Amaro won the office of mayor of the city of Gouveia . He headed Gouveia town hall for twelve years. In the local elections in 2013, Amaro won the office of mayor in the town of Guarda , which was the first time it was ruled by a PSD mayor. He was re-elected in 2017.

Since 2018 an investigation under the name "Rota Final" has been running by the Portuguese criminal police against 18 municipal administrations in central and northern Portugal. As part of this investigation, the suspicion that Amaro, together with the mayors of the municipalities of Lamego and Armamar, concluded excessive bus contracts with the transport company Transdev Portugal (part of the Transdev Group ) and acted as an "intermediary" for bus contracts with other municipalities, is being investigated should. In return, bribery payments are said to have flowed. In order to be able to accept his mandate as a member of the European Parliament (see following section) and to avoid pre-trial detention, Amaro paid a bail of 40,000 euros at the end of June 2019.

Change to the European Parliament

In 2019, Rui Rio , party leader of the Portuguese Social Democrats, announced the party's electoral list for the 2019 European elections . Amaro was nominated for the promising fifth place - the only new addition to the list next to Lídia Pereira . He gave up his mandate as Mayor of Guarda in April 2019, his deputy Carlos Alberto Monteiro succeeded him in the office.

In the European elections in May, the PSD won six of the 21 Portuguese mandates, including Amaro, with just under 22 percent. He joined the EPP group together with the other PSD MEPs . For the parliamentary group, he is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and a deputy member of the Committee on Regional Development .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Home | Álvaro AMARO | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Carolina Videira: Álvaro Amaro na senda do segundo mandato na Guarda. In: Beira.pt. September 13, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Biografia Álvaro Amaro PSD. Assembleia da República, accessed July 20, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ a b Álvaro Amaro. Partido Social Democrata, accessed July 20, 2019 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Rota Final atinge PSD. Álvaro Amaro e outros dois ex-autarcas são arguidos. Diário de Notícias, June 12, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Rota Final: Álvaro Amaro é alvo da operação da PJ. In: Sábado.pt. June 12, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Sandra Rodrigues: Álvaro Amaro paga 40 mil euros de caução e toma posse como eurodeputado. In: Público. Retrieved July 20, 2019 (Portuguese).
  8. ↑ Álvaro Amaro em quinto lugar da lista do PSD às europeias. In: Jornal Terras da Beira. March 13, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019 (European Portuguese).
  9. ↑ Margarida Gomes: Vice-presidente de Álvaro Amaro vai ser o novo presidente da Câmara da Guarda. In: Público. Retrieved July 20, 2019 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Amaro, Álvaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santos Amaro, Álvaro dos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Economist and Politician (PSD), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Coimbra or Ribamondego