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2023 Portuguese Socialist Party Leadership Election
The 2023 Portuguese Socialist Party leadership election was held on 15 and 16 December 2023. The leadership ballot was called after Prime Minister of Portugal, Prime Minister and Socialist Party (Portugal), Socialist Party Secretary-General António Costa resigned from office on 7 November 2023. The winner of this election led the Socialist Party into the 2024 Portuguese legislative election, 2024 legislative election. The declared candidates included the former Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing (Portugal), Infrastructure and Housing Minister Pedro Nuno Santos, who represented the leftist faction of the party and wants to build upon the legacy of António Costa, Ministry of Internal Administration (Portugal), Internal Administration Minister José Luís Carneiro, who represented the moderate faction and a continuation of António Costa, Costism, and Daniel Adrião, a longtime critic of Costa as Secretary-General, who represented a rupture. Even with the candidates claiming t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Costa
António Luís Santos da Costa GCIH (; born 17 July 1961) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician serving as the 119th and current prime minister of Portugal since 26 November 2015, presiding over the XXI (2015–2019), XXII (2019–2022) and XXIII Constitutional Governments (2022–present). Previously, he was the secretary of state for parliamentary affairs from 1995 to 1997, minister of parliamentary affairs from 1997 to 1999, minister of justice from 1999 to 2002, minister of internal administration from 2005 to 2007, and mayor of Lisbon from 2007 to 2015. He was elected as secretary general of the Socialist Party in September 2014. Early life and education Costa was born in 1961 in São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, the son of writer Orlando da Costa and journalist Maria Antónia Palla. Costa is half Portuguese and half Goan Portuguese; his father was born in Maputo, Mozambique, to a Goan family. In Goa, Costa is affectionately known as ''Babush'', a word in Konkani me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
