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Pedro Santana Lopes

Pedro Santana Lopes
GCC
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Pedro Santana Lopes in 2004
116th Prime Minister of Portugal
Election: 2005
In office
17 July 2004 – 12 March 2005
(7 months and 23 days)
President Jorge Sampaio
Preceded by José Manuel Barroso
Succeeded by José Sócrates
Mayor of Lisbon
In office
14 March 2005 – 28 October 2005
Preceded by Carmona Rodrigues
Succeeded by Carmona Rodrigues
In office
23 January 2002 – 17 July 2004
Preceded by João Soares
Succeeded by Carmona Rodrigues
President of the Social Democratic Party
In office
12 November 2004 – 8 April 2005
Secretary-General Miguel Relvas
Preceded by José Manuel Barroso
Succeeded by Luís Marques Mendes
Mayor of Figueira da Foz
In office
January 1998 – January 2002
Preceded by Aguiar de Carvalho
Succeeded by António Duarte Silva
Secretary of State of Culture
In office
9 January 1990 – 30 December 1994
Served with Teresa Gouveia (1990)
Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Preceded by Teresa Gouveia
Succeeded by Manuel Frexes
Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
In office
6 November 1985 – 17 August 1987
Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Preceded by Fernando Faria de Oliveira
Alfredo Barroso
Succeeded by Luís Marques Mendes
43rd President of Sporting Lisbon
In office
2 June 1995 – 11 April 1996
Preceded by Sousa Cintra
Succeeded by José Roquette
Personal details
Born (1956-06-29) 29 June 1956 (age 60)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political party Social Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Maria Isabel Marques Dias (divorced)
Maria Teresa de Arriaga (divorced)
Maria de Fátima Bagulho (divorced)
Children With Maria Isabel:
Gonçalo Nuno
With Maria Teresa:
Duarte Nuno
José Maria
With Maria de Fátima:
Carolina Maria
Diogo Maria
Education Liceu Padre António Vieira
Alma mater University of Lisbon
Religion Roman Catholicism
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Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes GCC (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpedɾu sɐ̃ˈtɐnɐ ˈlɔpɨʃ]; born 29 June 1956), a Portuguese lawyer and politician, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005. He is a former Member of the Portuguese Parliament.

Santana Lopes was born in Lisbon, Campo Grande, to Aníbal Luís Lopes (b. Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 17 February 1933), a company administrator whose maternal grandfather's maternal grandfather was a relative of João Brandão, and wife (m. Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 27 February 1954) Maria Ivone Risques Pereira de Santana (Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 3 May 1931 – Lisbon, 23 March 1999), a half-great-great-great-niece of the 2nd Baron of Brissos.

He graduated as a Licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he was Leader of the Student Union, becoming a lawyer. He joined the Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) in 1976, and has remained a member ever since. There he started his career as a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic.

In 1979, he became a legal advisor to Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro, and has identified himself as a follower of his for all his political life.

In 1986, he became Assistant State Secretary to Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, an office he left the next year to lead to PSD list to the European Parliament, where he remained for two years of his five-year-term.


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