José Sócrates
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José Sócrates GCIH |
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| 11th Prime Minister of Portugal | |
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In office 12 March 2005 – 21 June 2011 |
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| President |
Jorge Sampaio Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Preceded by | Pedro Santana Lopes |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Passos Coelho |
| Secretary-General of the Socialist Party | |
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In office 24 September 2004 – 23 July 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Ferro Rodrigues |
| Succeeded by | António José Seguro |
| Minister of Social Infrastructure | |
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In office 23 January 2002 – 6 April 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | António Guterres |
| Preceded by | Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues |
| Succeeded by | Luís Valente de Oliveira |
| Minister of the Environment | |
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In office 25 October 1999 – 6 April 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | António Guterres |
| Preceded by | Elisa Ferreira |
| Succeeded by | Arlindo Cunha |
| Adjunct Minister of the Prime Minister | |
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In office 25 November 1997 – 25 October 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | António Guterres |
| Preceded by | Jorge Coelho |
| Succeeded by | Armando Vara |
| Adjunct Secretary of State of the Minister of the Environment | |
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In office 28 October 1995 – 25 November 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | António Guterres |
| Preceded by | Joaquim Poças Martins António Taveira da Silva |
| Succeeded by | José Guerreiro |
| Personal details | |
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José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa 6 September 1957 Alijó, Portugal |
| Political party |
Social Democratic Party (Before 1981) Socialist Party (1981–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Sofia Costa Pinto Fava (Divorced) |
| Children | José Miguel Eduardo |
| Alma mater |
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra Lusíada University Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon Independente University University Institute of Lisbon |
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José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈsɔkɾɐtɨʃ]), is a Portuguese politician who was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011.
For the second half of 2007, he acted as the President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union. In addition to these posts, José Sócrates was Portugal's Minister for Youth and Sports and one of the organisers of the UEFA Euro 2004 football championship in Portugal, as well as being a former Environment Minister in the governments of António Guterres.
On 23 March 2011 he submitted his resignation to the president after parliament rejected his government's austerity measures in a vote, leading to the Portuguese legislative election of 2011. After losing the election, held on 5 June 2011, he resigned as Secretary-General of the Socialist Party.
On 21 November 2014 he was arrested in Lisbon, accused of corruption, tax evasion, and money laundering, becoming the first ex-PM in the history of the country to be thus accused. On 24 November Sócrates was remanded in custody on preliminary charges of corruption and tax fraud. He was held in the prison of Évora till 4 September 2015 when he left the prison for a relative's house in Lisbon, where he remained under house arrest until 16 October 2015. That day, a judge released him from house arrest, allowing him to await the end of the investigation in freedom, although remaining forbidden of leaving the country and of contacting with other suspects of the case.
José Sócrates was born in Porto on 6 September 1957, and was registered as a newborn in Vilar de Maçada, Alijó municipality, in northeastern Portugal, since the locality was his family ancestral homeland. However, the young José Sócrates lived throughout his childhood and teen years with his father, a divorced building designer, in the city of Covilhã, Cova da Beira subregion, in central inland Portugal, in the Centro region. His parents are Fernando Pinto de Sousa (Vilar de Maçada, Alijó, 15 November 1926 – Oporto, 18 July 2011) and wife and remote relative Maria Adelaide de Carvalho Monteiro (b. Vilar de Maçada, Alijó, 8 October 1931). He has two younger siblings, António Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, born circa 1962, and Ana Maria Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, died in 1988. He is a descendant of the illegitimate daughter of António José Girão Teixeira Lobo Barbosa (Porto, Sé, 9 January 1715 – Alijó, Vilar de Maçada), Fidalgo of the Royal Household and Knight of the Order of Christ.
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