Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa (; born 12 December 1948) is a Portuguese politician and academic who is the

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since 2016. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, though he suspended his party membership for the duration of his presidency. Rebelo de Sousa has previously served as a government minister, parliamentarian in the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic,

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, political analyst,

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, and pundit. Born in

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, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the eldest son of Baltasar Rebelo de Sousa (1921–2001) and his wife Maria das Neves Fernandes Duarte (1921–2003). He has claimed that his mother had Jewish ancestry. He is named after Marcelo Caetano, the last prime minister of the Estado Novo regime and a friend of his father. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa became a

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and publicist specialized in

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and

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, earning his doctorate at the

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, where he taught law.

Party politics and academic career

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa started his career during the Estado Novo as a

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, and later as a

. He joined the Popular Democratic Party, becoming a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic. During that time, he helped draft Portugal's

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in 1976. Later he rose to Minister of Parliamentary Affairs under

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Francisco Pinto Balsemão. Together with him he was a co- founder, Director and Administrator of the '' Expresso''

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, owned by Pinto Balsemão. He was also a founder of Sedes. He worked with another newspaper, ''Semanário'', between 1983 and 1987. He started as a political analyst and pundit on the radio broadcaster TSF with his ''Exams'', in which he gave marks (0 to 20) to the main political players. In 1989 he ran for President of the Municipal Chamber of

( Mayor of Lisbon) but lost to Jorge Sampaio, though he did win a seat as

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or ('' Vereador''). In that campaign he took a plunge into the waters of the Tagus River to prove they were not polluted despite claims to the contrary. In other local elections, he also became the President of the Municipal Assembly of

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(1979–1982) and the President of the Municipal Assembly of Celorico de Basto (1997–2009).

Leader of the PSD, 1996–1999

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's government while director of the weekly '' O Independente''.

Post-leadership

He had a weekly program of political analysis every Sunday on public TV station RTP after previously having a similar program on the private TV station TVI. President Jorge Sampaio dissolved the Assembly of the Republic, a move that also meant dismissing the Government at a time when it had a stable coalition majority, and calling for anticipated elections, which led to the defeat of Santana Lopes and the election of the Socialists under José Sócrates. In 2010, he left RTP and returned to TVI to do the same program that he had before. He was made a Member of the

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, by President

, and was sworn in on 6 April 2006. He was a leading figure on the

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side of the 2007 abortion referendum. He even founded a website titled "Assim Não" (Not like this), which was divulged with a famous introductory video. It became so well known that it was parodied in ''

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''-fashion by famous humour group Gato Fedorento.

Presidency

On 24 January 2016, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was elected as

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in the first round of voting. He stood as an independent, appealing for moderation and cross-party consensus. During his election campaign, he promised to repair political divisions and the hardship of Portugal's 2011–14 bailout. Unlike his predecessor,

, he had never previously held a top state position. In March 2020, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa asked parliament to authorize a

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to contain the

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; this marked the first time the country declared a state of emergency nationwide in 46 years of democratic history. In December 2020, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced his intention to run for office again in the 2021 Portuguese presidential election. Marcelo was re-elected president in January 2021, with 60.7% of the votes, the third highest vote margin ever in presidential elections in Portugal since the Carnation Revolution. He was also the first candidate ever to win the vote in all

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, ranging from 51.3% in the Beja District to 72.16% in

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. During his presidency, Rebelo de Sousa has publicly supported making restitution and acknowledging abuses made during Portugal's colonialist history and the country's role in the

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State visits

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa e Papa Francisco

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, as President of Portugal, has visited the

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and

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. The first visit was to the

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to meet the

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and the Cardinal Secretary of State

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. In 2019, he joined President

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for the traditional

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in Paris, which honoured European military cooperation and the European Intervention Initiative that year.

Health

In December 2017, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa underwent emergency surgery at Curry Cabral Hospital in order to treat an incarcerated umbilical hernia. The procedure was performed by , a friend of the president. He was discharged from the hospital and lauded the Portuguese National Health Service, considering it an important achievement of Portuguese democracy. In June 2018, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was briefly hospitalized after he collapsed after a visit to Bom Jesus do Monte sanctuary in Braga; the incident was caused by a sudden drop in

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alongside acute

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. In October 2019, he underwent planned cardiac catheterization at Santa Cruz Hospital, Carnaxide, in the outskirts of Lisbon, after accumulated calcium was detected in one of his coronary arteries. On 8 March 2020, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa suspended all his public agenda and returned to his private home in

, entering a voluntary quarantine period for 14 days after being revealed that a group of students from Felgueiras, who had visited Belém Palace some days before, had also been quarantined after a positive case of

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was detected in their school. Marcelo subsequently tested negative for the virus and worked remotely for a period during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 11 January 2021, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa tested positive for

, after a contact with a positive case in his staff. He was reportedly asymptomatic, and canceled his appointments, opting to remain in self-isolation. Three further COVID-19 tests yielded negative results. Some physicians said that a false positive PCR-RT test, although possible, was unlikely, and tentatively attributed the subsequent negative tests to a low viral load. On 13 January, however, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley regional public health authority confirmed that the President was considered to have had a low-risk exposure, and was therefore simply under passive surveillance for two weeks: the President was instructed that he could resume his agenda save for any events in crowded public places. In December 2021, he underwent planned surgery to remove two inguinal hernias at the Military Hospital in Lisbon. On 5 July 2023, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa collapsed during a visit to the NOVA University School of Science and Technology, in

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. He was taken to Santa Cruz Hospital "as a precaution". His chief of staff, Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, assured the situation was probably due to the heat and to the President's "heavy schedule". After being submitted to several medical exams, the President was discharged four hours later, with a Holter monitor, and addressed journalists on his way out from the hospital, saying he had had an episode of low blood pressure since he had skipped lunch — as he usually does, replacing it with Fortimel, a medical nutrition supplement — and had been offered a glass of warm moscatel shortly before he fainted that "must have upset, probably, isdigestion". The physicians recommended rest, though the President's personal physician, Daniel de Matos, remarked their recommendation would in all likelihood fall on deaf ears. His scheduled presence at several events was nonetheless cancelled until 9 July, but the President recorded video messages to be displayed at those events. Only indoor audiences at Belém Palace remained scheduled.

Personal life

On 22 July 1972, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa married Ana Cristina da Gama Caeiro da Mota Veiga in the parish of São Miguel de Machede in Évora. His wife, born on 4 June 1950 in the Santos-o-Velho parish of

, is the daughter of António da Mota Veiga and Maria Emília da Gama Caeiro. In the following years, Sousa and Mota Veiga had two children: * Nuno da Mota Veiga Rebelo de Sousa (b. São Sebastião da Pedreira,

, 8 August 1973) and * Sofia da Mota Veiga Rebelo de Sousa (b. São Sebastião da Pedreira,

, 27 September 1976). The couple separated in 1980 and

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d in 1983, although Marcelo, citing his

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faith, believes marriage lasts until death. He started dating his former student Rita Amaral Cabral in 1981, who at the time was his fellow lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the

. They continue to entertain a casual relationship, but live separately.

Controversies

In 2023, President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa became embroiled in a controversy following a TVI program that suggested he had intervened to expedite treatment for Brazilian twins with Zolgensma, a rare and highly expensive drug administered in a single dose costing two million euros. Allegations of corruption and influence peddling have emerged surrounding this event, also implicating the President's son, who is reportedly a friend of well-connected Brazilians linked to the family of the Brazilian children. These claims have been raised by various sectors of Portuguese politics and the media. Between July 2019 and July 2021, Infarmed, the Portuguese medicines agency, approved 17 applications for authorisation of the medicine given to the Brazilian twins. In most cases, authorisation took no more than a day. On 23 April 2024, he compared the current and previous prime ministers, saying that " António Costa was slow, because he is oriental" and Luís Montenegro, a rural personality in Sousa's opinion, "is not oriental but he is slow", at a dinner with foreign journalists.

Electoral history

Lisbon City Council election, 1989

, - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Candidate ! align="center" style="width: 50px", Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px", % ! align="center" style="width: 50px", Seats ! align="center" style="width: 50px", +/− , - , style="background:magenta;", , align="left", PS/ CDU/ MDP/CDE , align=left , Jorge Sampaio , , 180,635 , , 49.1 , , 9 , , style="color:green;", +1 , - , style="background:;", , align="left", PSD/ CDS/ PPM , align=left , Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa , , 154,888 , , 42.1 , , 8 , , style="color:red;", –1 , - , style="background:green;", , align="left", PRD , align=left ,

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, , 11,453 , , 3.1 , , 0 , , ''new'' , - , style="background:;", , align="left", PCTP/MRPP , align=left , Garcia Pereira , , 6,390 , , 1.7 , , 0 , , ±0 , - , style="background:red;", , align="left", FER , align=left , Gil Garcia , , 1,326 , , 0.4 , , 0 , , ''new'' , - , colspan="3" align="left", Blank/Invalid ballots , 13,433 , , 3.7 , , – , , – , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="3" align="left", Turnout , 368,125 , , 54.76 , , 17 , , ±0 , - , colspan="7" align=left, Source: Autárquicas 1989

PSD leadership election, 1996

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px", Candidate ! align="center" style="width: 50px", Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px", % , - , bgcolor=orange, , align=left , Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa , align=right , 603 , align=right , 66.4 , - , bgcolor=orange, , align=left , Pedro Santana Lopes , align=right , 305 , align=right , 33.6 , - , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" , Turnout , align=right , 908 , align=center , , - , colspan="4" align=left, Source: Results

Presidential election, 2016

, - ! colspan="2" , Candidate ! Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px", % , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa , , 2,413,956 , , 52.0 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Sampaio da Nóvoa , , 1,062,138 , , 22.9 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Marisa Matias , , 469,814 , , 10.1 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Maria de Belém , , 196,765 , , 4.2 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Edgar Silva , , 183,051 , , 3.9 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Vitorino Silva , , 152,374 , , 3.3 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Paulo de Morais , , 100,191 , , 2.2 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Henrique Neto , , 39,163 , , 0.8 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Jorge Sequeira , , 13,954 , , 0.3 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Cândido Ferreira , , 10,609 , , 0.2 , - , colspan="2" align="left", Blank/Invalid ballots , 102,552 , , – , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="2" align="left", Turnout , 4,744,567 , , 48.66 , - , colspan="4" align=left, Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Presidential election, 2021

, - ! colspan="2" , Candidate ! Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px", % , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa , , 2,531,692 , , 60.7 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Ana Gomes , , 540,823 , , 13.0 , - , style="background:#202056;", , align=left , André Ventura , , 497,746 , , 11.9 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , João Ferreira , , 179,764 , , 4.3 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Marisa Matias , , 165,127 , , 4.0 , - , style="background:;", , align=left , Tiago Mayan Gonçalves , , 134,991 , , 3.2 , - , style="background:#00939d;", , align=left , Vitorino Silva , , 123,031 , , 3.0 , - , colspan="2" align="left", Blank/Invalid ballots , 85,182 , , – , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="2" align="left", Turnout , 4,258,356 , , 39.26 , - , colspan="4" align=left, Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Honours and awards

Portuguese Orders

Insignia of Office

Grand Master of the Honorific Orders of Portugal (2016 – present)

Ancient Military Orders

PRT Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword - Grand Collar

Grand Collar of the Military Order of the Tower and Sword (9 March 2021) * PRT_Order_of_Saint_James_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR

Commander of the Order of Saint James of the Sword (9 June 1994)

National Orders

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Grand Cross of the

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(9 June 2005)

Foreign Orders

*: Collar of the National Order of Merit (23 May 2023) *: Collar of the Order of Agostinho Neto (6 March 2019) *: Grand Star of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (12 June 2019) *: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (22 October 2018) *: Grand Collar of the Order of the Southern Cross (29 May 2023) *: Grand Cross of the Order of the Balkan Mountains (30 January 2019) *: 1st Class of the (7 April 2017) *: Collar of the Order of Merit (27 March 2017) *: Grand Cross of the Grand Order of King Tomislav (4 May 2018) *: Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III (8 October 2022) *: Grand Cross with Gold Breast Star of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (23 March 2023) *: Grand Collar of the Order of Timor-Leste (19 May 2022) *: Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (16 April 2019) *: Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (26 August 2016) *: Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (21 April 2017) *: (19 May 2021) *: Knight with the Collar of the Order of Pius IX (7 July 2016) *: Grand Cross with Chain of the

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(23 February 2023) *: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the

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(29 November 2017) *: Commander Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of the Three Stars (12 April 2023) *: Knight of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau (23 May 2017) *: Honorary Companion of Honour with Collar of the National Order of Merit (15 May 2018) *: Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (17 July 2017) *: Plaque of the Order of Honour (2 October 2023) *: Collar of the Order of Muhammad (27 June 2016) *: ** Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (13 December 2024) ** Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (3 October 2017) *: Collar of the National Order of Merit (11 May 2017) *: Grand Cross with diamonds of the

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(25 February 2019) *: Knight of the Order of the White Eagle (11 August 2023) *: Collar of the Order of the Star (3 October 2023) *: Grand Cross of the National Order of the Lion (12 April 2017) *: Second Class of the Order of the Republic of Serbia (11 January 2017) *: Recipient of the Order for Exceptional Merits (31 May 2021) *: **Collar of the Order of Charles III (13 April 2018) **Knight of the Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (28 November 2016)

References

* ''Costados Alentejanos'', II, António Luís de Torres Cordovil Pestana de Vasconcelos, Edição do Author, Évora 2006, N.º 41

External links

Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa's genealogy in a Portuguese genealogical site
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