Pedro Passos Coelho

Pedro Passos Coelho (April 2014)

Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho [ ˈpeðɾu mɐnuˈɛɫ ˈpasuʃ kuˈeʎu ] (born July 24, 1964 in Coimbra ) is a Portuguese manager and politician. He was chairman of the liberal-conservative Partido Social Democrata (PSD) from 2010 to 2018 and Prime Minister of Portugal from 2011 to 2015 .

Life

Passos Coelho spent his childhood in what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola , where his father worked as a doctor. He returned to Portugal with his parents after the Carnation Revolution . The family lived in Vale de Nogueiras and he went to the Liceu Nacional Camilo Castelo-Branco high school in nearby Vila Real . At the age of fourteen he joined the Social Democratic Youth in 1978; later he was a member of the leadership of the party. From 1991 to 1999 he was a member of the National Assembly and represented Portugal in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 1991 to 1995. Passos Coelho was Vice-President of the PSD Group from 1996 to 1999.

At the age of 37, he graduated in 2001 with a degree in economics from the University of Lusíada in Lisbon. After various professional activities as a company consultant, he started in 2004 as a finance manager at Fomentinvest, then rose to the management board (2007–2009) and was CEO of the subsidiaries Ribtejo and HLC Tejo until 2009. At the Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas ("University for Educational Sciences ") in Lisbon , he also taught in the subjects of applied economy , tourism and economics .

Passos Coelho co-founded the Thinking Portugal movement in 2001 , along with Paulo Teixeira Pinto , Vasco Rato , Teresa Coelho Leal , Miguel Freitas da Costa , Luis Coimbra and Carlos Blanco de Morais . From 2005 to 2011, Passos Coelho was Chairman of the Vila Real City Council in Northern Portugal. For a time he was a councilor in Amadora.

With a programmatic contribution to a neoliberal orientation of the PSD, he applied for the first time in May 2008 for the election of a president of the PSD. At that time he lost to Manuela Ferreira Leite and then founded a think tank with a group of like-minded people called Construir Ideias (German: developing ideas).

Parliamentary election 2011

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In the parliamentary elections in Portugal in 2011 , he was a candidate for his party's head of government. After the election he was commissioned by President Cavaco Silva to form a government with a “majority in parliament”. On June 15, 2011 he was appointed Prime Minister of Portugal. The government was formed in a coalition of MPs from the PSD and the CDS-PP .

General election 2015

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In the parliamentary elections in Portugal in 2015 , the government under Prime Minister Passos Coelho lost an absolute majority and only got 107 out of 230 possible mandates. Nevertheless, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva commissioned him to form a minority government. This failed eleven days after being sworn in on November 10, 2015 due to the rejection of the government program in parliament. With socialists, communists and the Marxist left bloc, a total of 123 of 230 MPs voted against Passos Coelho's austerity program. From then on, Passos Coelho was still in office until November 26, 2015, when the government of his successor António Costa was sworn in.

family

Passos Coelho is married for the second time. With his first wife Fátima Padinha, one of the four singers in the Doce group , he has two daughters, Joana and Catarina. In his second marriage he is married to the physiotherapist Laura Maria Garcês Ferreira, who comes from Guinea-Bissau , and has another daughter.

Web links

Commons : Pedro Passos Coelho  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mudar (German: "Change") ( Memento from February 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• PSD website
• Full biography on PSD website accessed June 7, 2011 (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City Council of Vila Real ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ FAZ: Elections in Portugal - New government in the old corset June 4, 2011
3. ↑ Cavaco gives Passos the green light to form a government ( memento of the original dated August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 6, 2011 (Portuguese) 
4. ^ Passos Coelho: Portugal two terrible years ago. Retrieved June 16, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Sulzmann, Daniel: Portugal's minority government: fallen after a few days ( memento from November 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, November 10, 2015 (accessed on November 11, 2015).
6. ↑ Diario de Noticias: The smile of the wife of the leader of the PSD April 10, 2010 (Portuguese)

predecessor	Office	successor
José Sócrates	Prime Minister of Portugal from June 15, 2011 to November 26, 2015	Antonio Costa