Pedro Silva Pereira

Manuel Pedro Cunha da Silva Pereira (born August 15, 1962 ), mostly just Pedro Silva Pereira , is a Portuguese lawyer and politician of the Socialist Party . From 2005 to 2011, Silva Pereira was Minister for Presidential Affairs in Sócrates I and II Cabinets . He has been a member of the European Parliament since the 2014 European elections and defended his mandate in 2019. In 2019 he was elected one of the 14 Vice Presidents of the European Parliament.

Life

education

Born in 1962, Pedro Silva Pereira completed his law degree in 1985 at the University of Lisbon with the Lizenziatur ( Licenciatura ) from. From 1984 he worked at the same institution as a teaching assistant, from 1986 he taught at the private Lisbon Universidade Autónoma . In 1986 he began his practice as a lawyer, which he still does today. In 1993 he completed his master's degree in legal and political sciences, his dissertation with the title "A participação dosinterestados nas decisões administrativas: o inquérito público" deals with the introduction of different opinions in official decisions.

Engagement in Portuguese politics

Since the late 1980s, Silva Perreira worked as legal advisor to various ministries of the Portuguese state. Between 1988 and 1997 he advised the Ministry of the Environment and between 1997 and 1999 he worked for the Prime Minister's Assistant in the rank of Minister ( Ministro Adjunto do Primeiro-Ministro ) of the first Guterre cabinet . Between 1999 and 2002 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Property Management.

Perreira Silva has been a member of the Socialist Party (PS) in the Vila Real district association since 2000 , and has also been a member of the party secretariat since October 2004. In the parliamentary elections in 2002 he became a member of the Portuguese parliament and has already served in various parliamentary commissions. After the parliamentary elections in 2005 , in which the PS won an absolute majority, Prime Minister José Sócrates appointed Silva Pereira as the new Minister for Presidential Affairs . As head of this department, he was responsible for the constant exchange between the President and the government and, among other things, prepared the weekly working sessions. Because he, like Prime Minister Sócrates, comes from Vila Real and both worked in similar areas for a long time, Pereira was now considered the “right hand man” of Sócrates. He also held this position in the second Sócrate cabinet (2009–2011).

Change to the European Parliament

After José Sócrates resigned as Prime Minister and the liberal-conservative Social Democrats took over the government again in the new elections, Silva Perreira was put up for the European election list in 2014 . The party voted him seventh on the electoral list. The PS won 8 of the 21 Portuguese seats with 31.46 percent, so that Silva Perreira moved in directly. He joined the social democratic group, for which he was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs in the 8th electoral term (2014-2019) , and was also elected vice-chairman. He was also a member of the Development Committee (2014–2016) and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (June 2016–2019), as well as a deputy member of the Committee on International Trade .

Together with Danuta Huebner , Silva Perreira worked out a report in 2018 in which the European Parliament was asked to keep 46 of the 73 seats that will be lost after Brexit in reserve in order to hold them in reserve for MEPs from transnational, pan-European electoral lists or constituencies, or for countries that could join the EU in the future. Their proposal was later rejected by a parliamentary majority.

His party nominated him to third place on the list for the 2019 European elections , the PS won 33.38 percent and thus 9 of the 21 Portuguese seats. In the new parliamentary term, his S&D group proposed him for one of the 14 posts of Deputy Speaker of Parliament . The majority of the MPs elected him directly in the constituent session in the first ballot, he received 556 votes out of 661 valid votes. In addition to his duties as Vice President of Parliament, Silva Perreira is also a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He is a deputy member of the Committee for International Trade.

Private

He is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} João Pedro Henriques and Ana Sá Lopes: Governo: Metade PS, metade independentes ( Memento of October 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , [Government: half PS, half independent], Público , March 5, 2005
2. ↑ Lista do PS às eleições europeias: Pedro Silva Pereira em sétimo, Carlos Zorrinho em terceiro. Retrieved September 26, 2019 (European Portuguese). 
3. ↑ 8th legislative term | Pedro SILVA PEREIRA | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 26, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Maïa de La Baume: Parliament votes down plan for pan-European MEPs. In: Politico.eu. February 7, 2018, accessed September 26, 2019 . 
5. ↑ LISTA DE CANDIDATOS. In: PS Europeias. Retrieved September 26, 2019 (European Portuguese). 
6. ^ The new European Parliament Vice-Presidents | News | European Parliament. March 7, 2019, accessed September 26, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 9th legislative term | Pedro SILVA PEREIRA | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 26, 2019 . 

Web links

• Entry on Pedro Silva Pereira in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs