Rui Pereira

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Rui Carlos Pereira (born March 24, 1956 in Duas Igrejas , Miranda do Douro , Portugal ), mostly Rui Pereira , is a Portuguese Socialist Party politician . Among other things, he already headed the Portuguese domestic secret service and was a member of the Constitutional Court. Since 2007, Pereira has headed the Ministry of the Interior as the successor to António Costa .

Life

Rui Carlos Pereira was born on March 24, 1956 in the small northern Portuguese community of Duas Igrejas in Miranda County. He received his school education in Chaves, in the neighboring district of Vila Real , and graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon with a master's degree in law . Between 1981 and 1997 he taught criminal and procedural law at the same institution .

Between 1983 and 1990 Pereira worked mainly as a lawyer, including at the arbitration tribunal of the teachers' union in Greater Lisbon. He then advised the Portuguese Constitutional Court as an assessor until 1994. From 1995 he supported the Guterre government primarily in numerous reforms of criminal law, procedural law and the road traffic regulations.

Between 1997 and 2000 he headed the Portuguese domestic intelligence service Serviço de Informações de Segurança (SIS). In addition, Rui Pereira was one of the founders of the “Observatory for Organized Crime and Terrorism”, Portuguese Observatório de Segurança Criminalidade Organizada e Terrorismo , which he chaired between 2003 and 2007 at the same time. From 2000 to 2002 he already worked as State Secretary in the Portuguese Ministry of the Interior, where he was responsible for the PSP, GNR, the road traffic watch and the national election commissions. Between 2005 and 2007 Pereira worked again for a commission to amend the criminal law until he was elected on April 4, 2007 by the Portuguese parliament as one of the 13 constitutional judges. In between there was also speculation for an election as Attorney General, which was not confirmed by the election of Pinto Monteiro .

After the Socialist Party announced that it would nominate the then Interior Minister António Costa as a candidate for Lisbon's early local elections, Prime Minister José Sócrates proposed Pereira as his successor. After Rui Pereira initially resigned from his post as constitutional judge, which he only exercised for one month, he was sworn in on May 17, 2007 by President Cavaco Silva .

During his time as a lecturer at the University of Lisbon, he published numerous articles and books on criminal and procedural law.

Rui Pereira is married and has one daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All important data after the brief presentation on the website of the Ministry of the Interior
  2. ↑ Pedro Cunha: Rui Pereira é o próximo ministro da Administração Interna ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ultimahora.publico.clix.pt 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. , [Rui Perreira is the next Minister of the Interior], Público , May 15, 2007
  3. ↑ Rui Pereira será o novo ministro da Administração Interna , [Rui Pereira becomes new Minister of the Interior], Jornal de Notícias , May 15, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Pereira, Rui
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pereira, Rui Carlos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese politician and Minister of the Interior of Portugal
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Duas Igrejas (Miranda do Douro) , Portugal