Durão Barroso's cabinet

Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso (2003)

The 15th constitutional, freely elected Portuguese government after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 under Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso is called the Cabinet Durão Barroso , in Portugal also XV Governo Constitucional de Portugal , in German XV. constitutional government of Portugal.

Parliamentary elections 2002

After the Portuguese local elections in 2001, in which the Socialist Party suffered considerable losses, Prime Minister António Guterres submitted his resignation on December 16, so that President Jorge Sampaio announced new elections. The Portuguese parliamentary elections on March 17, 2002 were won by the right-wing Partido Social Democrata (PSD) with the candidate José Manuel Barroso with a clear 40 percent advantage over the previously ruling socialists with the candidate Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues , who gained around 37 percent of the vote. After negotiations with the CDS-PP , the Assembleia da República elected on April 6, 2002 the coalition government of PSD and CDS-PP under the leadership of José Manuel Barroso with a majority of 119 votes out of a total of 230. The PSD base criticized Barroso for the Choice of the coalition partner, especially since its chairman Paulo Portas, as editor-in-chief of the O Independente, made a name for himself as a critic of the social democrats during the reign of Cavaco Silva . In general, the new coalition was seen as a resurgence of the former Aliança Democrática .

Reign

Barroso's main government goal was to curb the debt and budget deficit left by the previous socialist government. Therefore, he succeeded in ensuring that his government was one of the smallest in Portuguese post-revolutionary history. His government, including ministers and state secretaries, provided a total of 51 people. Barroso occupies a total of 17 ministries, three of them under the direction of the CDS-PP, the rest under the direction of the PSD. As Minister of State, he elected Vice Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Chairman of the CDS-PP, Paulo Portas , and Finance Minister Manuela Ferreira Leite .

Barroso's reign marked two main points. This includes efforts to rehabilitate the Portuguese economy through cost savings and to bring the budget deficit below the three percent required by the Stability and Growth Pact . The decision to send troops of the Guarda Nacional Republicana as part of the coalition of the willing under the leadership of the USA to the Iraq war was also formative for Barroso's tenure . His decision is particularly criticized by the fact that a large part of the Portuguese population was against an operation in Iraq.

Several cabinet reshuffles took place during Barroso's tenure. First, both Luís Valente de Oliveira resigned from health problems and Isaltino Morais resigned because of a financial affair involving Swiss accounts in April 2003; some state secretaries followed both of them. António Martins da Cruz and Pedro Lynce both resigned in October 2003 because of a corruption affair. The last cabinet reshuffle concerned the post of Environment Minister, Amílcar Theias opposed Barroso regarding a post on the board of the state water supplier Águas de Portugal and had to resign in May 2004, among other things, under pressure from the Prime Minister.

José Manuel Barroso's time as Prime Minister ended much earlier than planned after the European Council agreed in June 2004 to propose him as the new President of the EU Commission , which sparked a major government crisis in Portugal. Since Barroso accepted the offer and then resigned as Prime Minister, the then Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio had both the option of immediate new elections and the search for another candidate for the post of Prime Minister while retaining the then parliamentary majority of PDS and CDS-PP . Barroso proposed the PSD vice-chairman, Pedro Santana Lopes , as the new prime minister. Sampaio followed this recommendation; the new, reshaped government began its work on July 17, 2004.

composition

Santana Lopes Cabinet - April 6, 2002 - July 17, 2004

Office	Surname	Political party
prime minister	José Manuel Barroso	Psd
Ministry of Finance	Manuela Ferreira Leite	Psd
Ministry of National Defense	Paulo Portas	CDS-PP
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Portuguese Communities	António Martins da Cruz (April 6, 2002 to October 9, 2003)	Psd
	Teresa Gouveia (since October 9, 2003)	Psd
Ministry of the Interior	António Figueiredo Lopes	Psd
Ministry of Justice	Maria Celeste Cardona	CDS-PP
Ministry of Presidential Affairs	Nuno Morais Sarmento	Psd
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	Luís Marques Mendes	Psd
Assistant to the Prime Minister with the rank of Minister	José Luís Arnaut	Psd
Ministry of Economy	Carlos Tavares	Psd
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries	Armando Sevinate Pinto	Psd
Ministry of Education	David Justino	Psd
Ministry of Science and Higher Education	Pedro Lynce (April 6, 2002 to October 9, 2003)	Psd
	Maria da Graça Carvalho (since October 9, 2003)	Psd
Ministry of Culture	Pedro Roseta	Psd
Ministry of Housing, Cities and Local Development and Administration	José Luís Arnaut	Psd
Ministry of Health	Luís Filipe Pereira	Psd
Ministry of Social Security and Labor	António Bagão Félix	CDS-PP
Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications	Luís Valente de Oliveira (April 6, 2002 to April 5, 2003)	Psd
	António Carmona Rodrigues (since April 5, 2003)	Psd
Ministry of Cities, the Environment and Property Management	Isaltino Morais (April 6, 2002 to April 5, 2003)	Psd
	Amílcar Theias (April 5, 2003 to May 21, 2004)	Psd
	Arlindo Cunha (since May 21, 2004)	Psd

Web links

• Information on the Barroso cabinet on the Portuguese government portal portugal.gov.pt (Portuguese, partly English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nikolaus Nowak: Portugal's Socialists after Guterres Resignation in the Crisis , Die Welt , December 28, 2001
2. ↑ Filipe Félix: AD: A imprevisível equação de Durão mais Portas ( Memento of July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , [Alliança Democrática: The unpredictable equation Durão mal Portas], Público , March 29, 2002
3. ↑ Filipe Félix: Os principais desafios do novo Executivo ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [The main tasks of the new executive], Público , 29 March 2002  
4. ↑ Sampaio já recebeu lista completa do XV Governo Constitucional  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , [Sampaio has already received the complete list of the 15th government], Público , April 5, 2002
5. ↑ Novos ministros tomam posse hoje  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , [New ministers take office today], Público , April 5, 2003
6. ↑ Parlamento: Oposição critica em bloco remodelação do Governo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , [Parliament: Opposition unanimously criticizes the reshuffle], Público , April 9, 2003
7. ↑ Helena Pereira: Martins da Cruz atribui ao primeiro-ministro a culpa pela crise prolongada  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , [Martins da Cruz accuses the Prime Minister of prolonging the crisis], Público , October 10, 2003
8. ↑ Ricardo Garcia and Ana Fernandes: Theias foi demitido porque se preparava para afrontar Durão  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , [Theias was fired because he planned to stand against Durão], Público , May 22, 2004
9. ↑ Arlindo Cunha toma posse como ministro do Ambiente  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , [Arlindo Cunha takes over the post of Environment Minister], Público , May 21, 2004
10. ^ Sophie Seyfert: Government crisis in Portugal ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, July 8, 2004
11. ↑ Presidente da República indigita Santana Lopes como novo primeiro-ministro  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , [President of the Republic proposes Santana Lopes as the new Prime Minister], Público , July 12, 2004