Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues
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His Excellency Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues |
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| President of the Assembly of the Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Assumed office 23 October 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Assunção Esteves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary-General of the Socialist Party | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 20 January 2002 – 24 September 2004 |
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| President | António de Almeida Santos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | António Guterres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | José Sócrates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues 3 November 1949 Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Political party | Socialist Party | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Maria Filomena Lopes Peixoto de Aguiar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | João Luís Rita |
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| Alma mater | School of Economics and Finance, Technical University of Lisbon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues (born 3 November 1949) is a Portuguese politician and economist who has been President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2015. He was Minister for Social Security, and later Minister for Public Works, in the governments of António Guterres.
Born in Lisbon, he obtained the degree of licenciado in economics at what today is the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) of Lisbon University, and is a lecturer in economics at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon.
In 2002, Ferro Rodrogues was elected Secretary-General of the Portuguese Socialist Party, a position he retained for two years. He resigned on 9 July 2004, immediately after President Jorge Sampaio announced a decision not to hold early elections when Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso stepped down from office in order to be appointed President of the European Commission. Shortly after, Rodrigues was appointed as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the OECD.
Following the October 2015 parliamentary election, he was elected as President of the Assembly of the Republic on 23 October 2015 with the support of the Socialists, the Communists and the Left Bloc. Ferro received 120 votes against 108 votes for the candidate of the centre-right government.
Married to Maria Filomena Lopes Peixoto de Aguiar, he has two children, João Luís de Aguilar Ferro Rodrigues and a daughter, television presenter Rita Ferro Rodrigues.
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