Pedro Mota Soares

Pedro Mota Soares

Luís Pedro Russo da Mota Soares (born May 29, 1974 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. From June 21, 2011 to November 26, 2015, he held the post of Minister for Solidarity and Social Security in the Passos Coelho cabinet . From July 24, 2013, he was also Minister of Labor.

Life

Luís Pedro Russo da Mota Soares comes from Lisbon and completed his studies with the license ( licenciatura ) customary in Portugal in law , specializing in labor law. He followed up with a postgraduate degree in labor law, while at the same time working as a research assistant at the law faculty of the Universidade Lusófona . After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer.

He is married and has two children.

politics

Soares joined the CDS-PP early on , where he was chairman of the youth organization Juventude Popular from 1996 to 1999. For the elections to the Assembleia da República 1999 (8th legislative period) Soares stood for the first time and won a mandate over the Lisbon constituency, then he took over the post of deputy chairman of the CDS-PP parliamentary group. He was also a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Insurance, the Committee on Youth and Sport and the Committee on Health and Drug Addiction. Soares also held the office of City Council of Oeiras .

Within the party, he was promoted to general secretary of the party in 2002 and held the post until 2005, during which time he was not represented in parliament. He did not run again until the 2005 election (10th legislative period) and was elected. During the legislative period he became chairman of the parliamentary group of the CDS-PP in the Portuguese parliament. He was also chairman of the committee on labor, social security and public administration, as well as deputy chairman of the committee on ethics, society and culture, as well as a member of the non-permanent committee on constitutional revision and of the working group on parliamentary reforms. In the subsequent elections ( 2009 (XI. Legislative period), 2011 ) (XII. Legislative period) Mota Soares was also elected to parliament. In the XI. In the legislature, he also held the post of chairman of the parliamentary group of the CDS-PP.

After the parliamentary elections in 2011 , Soares was part of the negotiating group between the Portuguese Social Democrats and the CDS-PP, which, after successful negotiations, led to the swearing-in of the Passos Coelho cabinet , in which he has been the minister for solidarity and social security since then. Due to the incompatibility of the ministerial post with the parliamentary mandate, the latter has been suspended since it was sworn in on June 21, 2011.

Mota Soares already attracted attention when he was sworn in, as he - unlike all the other guests - drove up to the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda on a Vespa . He justified this with the upcoming austerity efforts of his government.

Web links

• Vita on the website of the Portuguese government (Portuguese)
• Facebook profile (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sofia Rodrigues / Lusa: Rui Machete, Moreira da Silva e Pires de Lima são os novos ministros , Público, 23 July 2013
2. ↑ Mota Soares, from Juventide Centrista para a Segurança Social , [Mota Soares, from the Centric Youth on Social Insurance], Jornal de Notícias , June 17, 2011
3. ↑ ^{a b} Vita on the pages of the Portuguese Parliament (Portuguese)
4. ↑ Pedro Mota Soares chegou de Vespa , [Pedro Mota Soares came with the Vespa], Diário de Notícias , June 21, 2011