Miguel Bento Martins da Costa Macedo e Silva (6 June 1959 – 13 March 2025) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Internal Administration. Macedo received his degree in law from the

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Life and career

Miguel Macedo was the leader of JSD, the youth wing of PSD. His first experience in the government was in the first cabinet of

Aníbal Cavaco Silva Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (; born 15 July 1939) is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the 19th president of Portugal, from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 6 November 1985 to 25 October ...

as Junior Secretary of State of Minister Couto dos Santos between 1990 and 1991. Afterwards he became active in local politics and was elected city councilor of

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, from 1993 to 1997. In 2002, he returned to national politics with the PSD as State Secretary of Justice under Minister

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and Minister

José Pedro Aguiar-Branco José Pedro Correia de Aguiar-Branco (born 18 July 1957) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has been the President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024, in the 16th Legislature. Previously he served as Minister of Justice from 200 ...

. He was the Deputy for

from 1987 to 2002, and again from 2005 onwards. When

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was elected president of PSD, Miguel Macedo was elected leader of Parliament. His negative vote for the approval of the ''Programa de Estabilidade e Crescimento'' tability and Growth Programme(PEC) of the current president at that time,

José Sócrates José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates (), 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 ...

, meant the fall of his government and the call for early elections. On 16 November 2014, he announced his resignation following a series of corruption allegations and investigations into some of his business and ministerial partners, regarding the attribution of golden visas. In February 2017, the trial regarding those accusations began. In January 2019, Miguel Macedo was acquitted from all the accusations. Macedo died from a heart attack on 13 March 2025, at the age of 65.

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