Paulo Portas
| Paulo Portas | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal | |
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In office 24 July 2013 – 26 November 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Pedro Passos Coelho |
| Preceded by | Eurico de Melo |
| Succeeded by | Position vacant |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 21 June 2011 – 24 July 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Pedro Passos Coelho |
| Preceded by | Luís Amado |
| Succeeded by | Rui Machete |
| Leader of the CDS – People's Party | |
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In office 21 April 2007 – 13 March 2016 |
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| Preceded by | José Ribeiro e Castro |
| Succeeded by | Assunção Cristas |
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In office 22 March 1998 – 24 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Manuel Monteiro |
| Succeeded by | José Ribeiro e Castro |
| Minister of National Defence | |
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In office 6 April 2002 – 12 March 2005 |
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| Prime Minister |
José Manuel Barroso Pedro Santana Lopes |
| Preceded by | Rui Pena |
| Succeeded by | Luís Amado |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas 12 September 1962 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | People's Party |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Portugal |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Nickname(s) | Paulinho das Feiras (Paulie of the Market Fairs) Catherine Deneuve |
Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (born 12 September 1962, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpawlu ˈpɔɾtɐʃ]), is a prominent Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been Portugal's leading conservative politician. He was the leader of Portugal's only politically to-the-right major party, the CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP) from 1998-2005 and 2007-2016, on whose lists he was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in every legislative election between 1995 and 2015. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013, and Minister of Defence from 2002 to 2005, all three times in coalitions of the PSD and his CDS-PP. He has been dogged by controversy, in particular a costly purchase of submarines to the Portuguese Navy when he was Minister of Defence.
Paulo Portas was born in Lisbon and grew up in a free thinking, politically aware family with rural landowner roots in Vila Viçosa on his father's side and military tradition on his mother's (niece of Portuguese aviation hero Artur de Sacadura Cabral). His father, Nuno Portas, was an influential post-modernist architect, who professed progressive Roman Catholic views. His mother, Helena Sacadura Cabral was an economist, journalist and author, who held more conservative views that appear to have passed on to Paulo Portas who stayed living with her after his parents separated. In contrast, his older brother Miguel Portas stayed with their father and became a communist and later a leftist. Their half-sister is Catarina Portas, a well-known Portuguese journalist, businesswoman and media personality.
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