Miguel Macedo
Miguel Bento Martins da Costa de Macedo e Silva (born May 6, 1959 in Braga , Portugal ) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician of the Partido Social Democrata . Since June 21, 2011 he has been head of the Ministry of the Interior in the Passos Coelho cabinet .
Life
education
Miguel Macedo was born on May 6, 1959 in the northern Portuguese city of Braga. He completed his law studies at the Universidade de Coimbra with the license ( licenciatura ) customary in Portugal . He then worked as a lawyer.
Party political career
Macedo has been a member of the Portuguese Social Democrats or the youth party Juventude Social Democrata since his youth .
For the first time Macedo ran in the parliamentary elections in 1987 for a mandate in the fifth legislative period of the Assembleia da República and won it. From that point on, Macedo was a member of parliament until today - apart from the period from 2002 to 2005 (IXth legislature). He was always drafted through the constituency of Braga.
Macedo held his first office during the second government under Cavaco Silva between 1990 and 1991 as State Secretary for Youth under Minister António Couto dos Santos . He then took on the duties of a city council in his hometown of Braga between 1993 and 1997.
Between 2002 and 2005, during the coalition government of the PSD and CDS-PP, he took over the office of State Secretary for Justice. Subsequently, after Luís Marques Mendes took over the chairmanship of the Social Democrats, he was elected General Secretary of the party. He held this office until 2007. After the party delegates had elected Pedro Passos Coelho as chairman in 2010, Macedo took over the duties of chairman of the Social Democrats in the Assembleia da República. He held this office until the 2011 parliamentary elections.
On 17 June 2011, the previously suggested in the general election victorious Pedro Passos Coelho Miguel Macedo prior to his cabinet as a social democratic ministers of four. President Cavaco Silva then appointed him Minister of the Interior on June 21, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on the pages of the Portuguese Parliament (Portuguese)
Web links
- Vita on the website of the Portuguese government (Portuguese, English)
Pedro Passos Coelho (PSD) | Paulo Portas (CDS-PP) | Rui Machete (PSD, since July 24, 2013) | Vítor Gaspar (independent until July 1, 2013) | Maria Luís Albuquerque (independent, since July 1, 2013) | Miguel Relvas (PSD, until April 4, 2013) | Miguel Poiares Maduro (PSD, since April 4, 2013) | Luís Marques Guedes (PSD, since April 4, 2013) | José Pedro Aguiar Branco (PSD) | Miguel Macedo (PSD) | Paula Teixeira da Cruz (PSD) | Álvaro Santos Pereira (independent until July 24, 2013) | António Pires de Lima (CDS-PP, since July 24, 2013) | Assunção Cristas (CDS-PP) | Jorge Moreira da Silva (PSD, since July 24, 2013) | Pedro Mota Soares (CDS-PP) | Paulo Macedo (independent) | Nuno Crato (independent)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Macedo, Miguel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martins da Costa de Macedo e Silva, Miguel Bento (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braga , Portugal |