Aníbal Cavaco Silva
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His Excellency Aníbal Cavaco Silva GColL GCC KGCIC GCSC GCMFRG GCON |
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| 19th President of Portugal | |
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In office 9 March 2006 – 9 March 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
José Sócrates Pedro Passos Coelho António Costa |
| Preceded by | Jorge Sampaio |
| Succeeded by | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
| 113th Prime Minister of Portugal | |
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In office 6 November 1985 – 28 October 1995 |
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| President |
António Ramalho Eanes Mário Soares |
| Deputy | Eurico de Melo |
| Preceded by | Mário Soares |
| Succeeded by | António Guterres |
| President of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 17 May 1985 – 17 February 1995 |
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| Secretary- General |
Manuel Dias Loureiro José Falcão e Cunha José Nunes Liberato |
| Preceded by | Carlos Mota Pinto |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Nogueira |
| Minister of Finance and Planning | |
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In office 3 January 1980 – 9 January 1981 |
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| Prime Minister | Francisco Sá Carneiro |
| Preceded by |
António de Sousa Franco (Finance) Carlos Corrêa Gago (Planning) |
| Succeeded by | João Morais Leitão |
| Personal details | |
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Aníbal António Cavaco Silva 15 July 1939 Boliqueime, Portugal |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Alves (1963–present) |
| Children | Patrícia Maria Bruno |
| Alma mater |
Technical University of Lisbon University of York |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Website | Official website |
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC, GColL (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈniβɐɫ ɐ̃ˈtɔɲu kɐˈvaku ˈsiɫvɐ]; born 15 July 1939), was the 19th President of Portugal, in office from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016. He had been previously Prime Minister of Portugal from 6 November 1985 to 28 October 1995. His tenure of ten years was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar, and he was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is best known for leading Portugal into the European Union.
He won the 22 January 2006 presidential election and was re-elected on 23 January 2011 for a second five-year term.
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva was born in Boliqueime, Loulé, Algarve, the son of Teodoro Gonçalves Silva (Loulé, Boliqueime, Maritenda, 30 August 1912 – 30 September 2007) and wife (m. Loulé, Boliqueime, 4 March 1935) Maria do Nascimento Cavaco (b. Loulé, Boliqueime, Maritenda, 27 December 1912).
Cavaco Silva was an undistinguished student at school. As a 13-year-old, he flunked at the 3rd grade of the Commercial School, and his grandfather put him working on the farm as a punishment. After returning to school, Cavaco Silva went on to become an accomplished student. Cavaco Silva then went to Lisbon, where he took a vocational education course in accounting from "Instituto Comercial de Lisboa" (Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa (ISCAL), today) in 1959. In parallel, he was admitted for university education at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Económicas e Financeiras de Lisboa (ISCEF) of the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) (currently the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) of the Technical University of Lisbon), and obtained in 1963, with distinction, a degree in economics and finance (he scored a mark of 16 out of 20). While studying in Lisbon, Cavaco Silva was an athlete of CDUL athletics department from 1958 to 1963.
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