Carlos Zorrinho

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Carlos Zorrinho (2017)

José Carlos das Dores Zorrinho (born May 28, 1959 in Óbidos ) is a Portuguese economist and politician ( PS ). Between 2011 and 2014, Zorrinho headed the opposition parliamentary group of the Portuguese Socialists in the Assembleia da República . He has been a MEP for Portugal since the 2014 European elections and defended his mandate in the 2019 European elections .

Life

education

Carlos Zorrinho holds a Licenciatura in Business Management from the University of Évora . He later did a doctorate in information management and lectured in economics at the same university.

Political career in Portugal

From 1990 Zorrinho was a member of the National Council of Portuguese Socialists . In 1995 he ran for the first time for the national parliamentary elections and won a mandate in the constituency of Évora. In 1999 the parliamentary group elected him deputy group chairman. He held his parliamentary mandate until 2000.

In 2000, Zorrinho took over the duties of State Secretary in the Ministry of Internal Administration in the Guterres II cabinet under Nuno Severiano Teixeira . After the socialists lost the elections in 2002 , he returned to Évora University for a few years. After the early elections in 2005, in which the socialists again won, he was appointed national coordinator for the so-called “ Lisbon Strategy ” in the Sócrates I cabinet.

In the Sócrates II cabinet , Zorrinho was State Secretary for Energy and Innovation under António Mendonça , Minister for Economy, Innovation and Development. In the 2011 elections he returned as a member of parliament, where the PS MPs elected him as group chairman. During that time he negotiated the austerity measures imposed by the European Union and the IMF with the two governing parties PSD and CDS-PP.

Change to the European Parliament

In 2014 PS nominated Zorrinho for third place on the list for the 2014 European elections . The socialists won 31.7 percent of the vote, so that Zorrinho entered the European Parliament. There he, like his party colleagues, joined the social democratic group . In the 8th legislative period (2014-2019) he was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Industry . He was an alternate member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety .

For the 2019 European elections, the PS nominated him for 7th place on the list. The socialists won 33.38 percent, 9 of the 21 Portuguese mandates, so that Zorrinho was able to defend his mandate. He also joined the S&D parliamentary group in the 9th legislative period, and he heads the nine-member Portuguese delegation within the group. For the parliamentary group he is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a deputy member of the Development Committee .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 8th legislative term | Carlos ZORRINHO | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ LISTA DE CANDIDATOS. In: PS Europeias. Retrieved September 25, 2019 (European Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Morreu o eurodeputado do PS André Bradford. Morte ″ terrivelmente prematura ″, diz o PR. Retrieved September 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ 9th legislative term | Carlos ZORRINHO | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zorrinho, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zorrinho, José Carlos das Dores (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Economist and Politician (PS), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Óbidos , Portugal