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António Lacerda Sales
António Lacerda Sales (born 3 June 1962) is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party who served as the Secretary of State of Health between 2019 and 2022. Political career Lacerda Sales became a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic after being elected in the 2015 legislative election. He was reelected in 2019 and after the election he was appointed Secretary of State of Health by Prime Minister António Costa. In the 2021 local elections, he became President of the Municipal Assembly of Leiria after winning an absolute majority of seats. In 2022, he was chosen to be the head candidate for the Socialist Party in Leiria, district in which he had been elected in the two previous elections. For the first time in history, the Socialist Party won Leiria, a district that had been won by the PSD since 1975. After the election, he kept his job as Secretary of State until 13 September 2022, when he resigned after Marta Temido left her position as Minister of Health A healt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Health (Portugal)
The Ministry of Health () is a Portuguese government ministry. The minister is Ana Paula Martins, she is a pharmacist and a politician. Her deputies are Cristina Vaz Tomé and Ana Povo. List of ministers * 1983–1985: António Maldonado Gonelha * 1985–1990: Leonor Beleza * 1990–1993: Arlindo de Carvalho * 1993–1995: Paulo Mendo * 1995–1999: Maria de Belém Roseira * 1999–2001: Manuela Arcanjo * 2001–2002: António Correia de Campos * 2002–2005: Luís Filipe Pereira * 2005–2008: António Correia de Campos * 2008–2011: Ana Jorge * 2011–2015: Paulo Macedo * Nov 2015: Fernando Leal da Costa * 2015–2018: Adalberto Campos Fernandes * 2018–2022: Marta Temido * 2022–2024: Manuel Pizarro * 2024–present: Ana Paula Martins Controversy In June 2024, police raided the ministry (and the country's largest hospital) in an investigation into whether officials broke laws by giving preferential access to a costly medical treatment to baby twins whose fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leiria
Leiria () is a city and municipality in the Central Region, Portugal, Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, after Coimbra, with a municipality population of 128,640 (as of 2021) in an area of . It is the seat of Leiria District, its own district and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria-Fátima. The city is part of the historical Provinces of Portugal, province of Beira Litoral Province, Beira Litoral. History The region around Leiria has long been inhabited although its early history is obscure. The first evident inhabitants were the Turduli Oppidani, a Celtici tribe (akin to the Lusitanians), who established a settlement near (around 7 km) present-day Leiria. This settlement was later occupied by the Ancient Rome, Romans, who expanded it under the original Celtiberian language, Celtiberian name ''Collippo''. The stones of the ancient Roman town were used in the Middle Ages to build much of Leiria. The name "Leiria" in Portuguese derives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1962 Births
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Netherlands, Dutch rail disaster. * January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. * January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian. * January 13 – People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China. * January 15 ** Portugal abandons the United Nations General Assembly due to the debate over Angola. ** French designer Yves Saint Laurent (designer), Yves Saint Laurent launches Yves Saint Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TAP Air Portugal
TAP Air Portugal is the flag carrier of Portugal, headquartered at Lisbon Airport which also serves as its airline hub, hub. TAP – Transportes Aéreos Portugueses – has been a member of the Star Alliance since 2005 and operates on average 2,500 flights a week to 90 destinations in 34 countries worldwide. As of May 2019 the company has a fleet of 100 aircraft, all of which are manufactured by Airbus with the exception of 19 aircraft manufactured by Embraer, operating on behalf of the regional airline TAP Express. The airline was established on 14 March 1945 and began commercial services on 19 September 1946. Having been founded as a national institution, the airline was privatisation, privatised for the first time in its history during 1953. Throughout its existence, TAP has alternated between public and private ownership. In 1965, it bought its first Boeing-built jetliner, the Boeing 707, 707. In 1967, the airline became the first in Europe to exclusively operate jets. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Temido
Marta Alexandra Fartura Braga Temido de Almeida Simões (born 2 March 1974) is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Health under Prime Minister António Costa, between 15 October 2018 and 10 September 2022. She submitted her resignation from the post on 30 August 2022 and ended her functions on 10 September 2022. Initially she was an Independent minister, invited to perform the role without affiliation to the governing parties, but in August 2021 she joined the Socialist Party (PS). Temido was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the June 2024 European election, and formally took her seat in the Tenth European Parliament on 16 July. Early life and education Temido has a law degree and a master's degree in health economics and management from the University of Coimbra, as well as a PhD in international health from the NOVA University of Lisbon. Career Before taking on government duties, Temido was deputy director of the ''Instituto de Higiene e Medicina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Portuguese Constituent Assembly Election
Constituent Assembly elections were carried out in Portugal on 25 April 1975, exactly one year after the Carnation Revolution. The election elected all 250 members of the Constituent Assembly of Portugal, Portuguese Constituent Assembly. It was the first free election held in Portugal since 1925 Portuguese legislative election, 1925, and only the seventh free election in all of Portuguese history. It was also the first under universal suffrage since 1894. Turnout was a record 91.66 percent, which remains (as of 2022) the highest ever in any Portuguese democratic elections (general, regional, local or European). The main aim of the election was the election of a Constituent Assembly, in order to write a Constitution of Portugal, new constitution to replace the Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo regime's authoritarian Constitution of Portugal#Constitution of 1933, Constitution of 1933 and so this freely-elected parliament had a single-year mandate and no government was based on Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
The Social Democratic Party ( , PSD) is a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal that is currently the country's ruling party. Commonly known by its colloquial initials PSD, on ballot papers its initials appear as its official form PPD/PSD, with the first three letters coming from the party's original name, the Democratic People's Party (, PPD). A party of the centre-right, the PSD is one of the three major parties in Portuguese politics, its rivals being the Socialist Party (PS) on the centre-left and the far-right Chega (CH) party. The PSD was founded in 1974, two weeks after the Carnation Revolution. In 1976, the party adopted its current name. In 1979, the PSD allied with centre-right parties to form the Democratic Alliance and won that year's election. One year later, the party's founder and then Prime Minister, Francisco Sá Carneiro died in a plane crash. After the 1983 general election, the party formed a grand coalition with the Socialist Party, kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Portuguese Legislative Election
Early legislative elections were held on 30 January 2022 in Portugal to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly of the Republic to the 15th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election. On 27 October 2021, the budget proposed by the XXII Constitutional Government of Portugal, Socialist minority government was rejected by the Assembly of the Republic. The Left Bloc (Portugal), Left Bloc (BE) and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), both of whom had previously supported the government, joined the centre-right to right-wing opposition parties and rejected the budget. On 4 November 2021, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of Portugal, announced a snap election to be held on 30 January 2022. This election was the third national election held in Portugal during the COVID-19 pandemic - as the country held a 2021 Portuguese presidential election, presidential election (January) and 2021 Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Portuguese Local Elections
Local elections in Portugal were held on 26 September 2021. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Municipalities of Portugal, Portuguese municipalities: the election for the Câmara Municipal, Municipal Chamber (the executive branch of the municipality), whose winner is automatically elected mayor, similar to First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post (FPTP); another election for the Assembleia Municipal, Municipal Assembly (the deliberative branch of the municipality); and an election for the Assembleia de freguesia, Parish Assembly (the deliberative branch of the lower-level Freguesia, parish), whose winner is elected Junta de freguesia, parish president. This last one was held separately in the more than 3,000 parishes around the country. In the 2021 election, 12.3 percent of incumbent mayors, 38 to be precise, were barred from running for another term: 23 from the Socialist Party (Portugal), PS, 11 from the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), PSD, 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Costa
António Luís Santos da Costa (; born 17 July 1961) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has served as President of the European Council since 2024. He previously served as the 118th prime minister of Portugal from 2015 to 2024 and the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party (Portugal), secretary-general of the Socialist Party from 2014 to 2024. Born in Lisbon, Costa was Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs from 1995 to 1997, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs from 1997 to 1999, Ministry of Justice (Portugal), Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2002, Ministry of the Internal Administration (Portugal), Minister of Internal Administration from 2005 to 2007, as well as List of mayors of Lisbon, Mayor of Lisbon from 2007 to 2015. Costa was 2014 Portuguese Socialist Party prime ministerial primary, elected secretary-general of the Socialist Party in 2014. Costa's near 9-year tenure as Prime Minister is the second longest, with Costa also being the longest serving po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Portuguese Legislative Election
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested. In a campaign dominated by the Tancos airbase robbery"Há um antes e um depois da acusação de Tancos na campanha " '' Público'', 26 September 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020. (in which former Defense Minister Azeredo Lopes (2015–2018) was accused of trying to cover-up the finding of the stolen weapons in the robbery), but also with the good economic situation in Portugal, the |
