Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues
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| Born | Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues 3 November 1949 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Lisbon |
| Children | João Luís Rita |
| Spouse | Maria Filomena Lopes Peixoto de Aguiar |
| Party | Socialist Party (Portugal) |
Portuguese politician and economist who attended the 2003 Bilderberg meeting when Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. | |
Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues is a Portuguese politician and economist. He attended the 2003 Bilderberg meeting when Secretary-General of the Socialist Party.
Education
Born in Lisbon, he obtained the degree of licenciado in economics at what today is the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) of Lisbon University, and is a lecturer in economics at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon.
Political career
In the 1970s, he was a co-founder of Movimento de Esquerda Socialista (MES).[1]
In 2002, Ferro Rodrigues was elected Secretary-General of the Portuguese Socialist Party, a position he retained for two years.[2] He resigned on 9 July 2004, immediately after President Jorge Sampaio announced a decision not to hold early elections when Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso stepped down from office in order to be appointed President of the European Commission.[3] Shortly after, Rodrigues was appointed as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the OECD.[4]
Following the October 2015 parliamentary election, he was elected as President of the Assembly of the Republic on 23 October 2015 with the support of the Socialists, the Communists and the Left Bloc. Ferro received 120 votes against 108 votes for the candidate of the centre-right government.[5]
After the 2019 parliamentary election, Ferro Rodrigues was re-elected as President of the Assembly of the Republic, receiving 178 votes in favor.[6]
Family
Married to Maria Filomena Lopes Peixoto de Aguilar, he has two children, João Luís de Aguilar Ferro Rodrigues and a daughter, television presenter Rita Ferro Rodrigues.
References
- ↑ https://www.publico.pt/interactivo/partidos
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=rcWZJcQqac8C&pg=PA127
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110606130922/http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/port-j21.shtml
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121021042546/http://www.oecd.org/document/31/0,3746,en_33873108_33873764_1911641_1_1_1_1,00.html
- ↑ "Portugal parliament elects Socialist speaker with support of left", Reuters, 23 October 2015.
- ↑ https://www.dn.pt/poder/ferro-rodrigues-reeleito-para-presidencia-da-assembleia-da-republica-11446097.html
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