Teresa Caeiro

Teresa Margarida Figueiredo de Vasconcelos Caeiro (born February 14, 1969 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician of the right-wing conservative CDS-PP .

Life

Caeiro comes from a family of military men. She is the daughter of commandant Pedro de Vasconcelos Caeiro (* 1937) and his wife Maria Teresa Leandro de Almeida Figueiredo. Her paternal grandfather is the Admiral Francisco Ferrer Caeiro . She studied law at the University of Lisbon . She spent her time preparing to become a lawyer between 1993 and 1995 at the law firm PLMJ & Associados. She then worked as a freelance translator at the Court of Justice of the European Union for three years . From 1998 to 1999 she was in the legal department of Portugália Airlines .

As a member of the CDS from 1997 to 2001, she was a member of the Assembleia de Freguesia of the Lisbon municipality of Mercês . From 1999 to 2001 she was Secretary General of the CDS-PP parliamentary group in the Assembleia da República . In the parliamentary elections in March 2002, she was elected to the Assembleia da República , but left her mandate suspended in order to take over the office of government president in the Lisbon district on May 14, 2002 .

On September 12, 2003, Prime Minister Barroso brought her to his cabinet as State Secretary for Portuguese Social Security . Barroso's successor, Santana Lopes , made her Secretary of State for Arts and Events on July 21, 2004. With the defeat of Santana Lopes in the election in February 2005, she left the cabinet.

Since 2008 she has been deputy chairwoman of the CDS-PP. In 2009 she was elected Vice-President of the Assembleia da República.

She comments on the television channel SIC Notícias . A son comes from her relationship with the political scientist Vasco Rato . On June 25, 2011, she married the journalist Miguel Sousa Tavares .

Honors

• 2009: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Short biography of Teresa Caeiro at the Assembleia da República (Portuguese)