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Tiago Mayan Gonçalves
Tiago Mayan Gonçalves (born 5 March 1977) is a Portuguese politician who represents Liberal Initiative. Background and personal life Mayan was born in Porto, on 5 March 1977. By profession he is a lawyer and studied at Catholic University of Portugal. He is son of a couple of chemical engineers. His father worked in business management, and his mother was a researcher and teacher. In his free time Mayan has been volunteering at Reefood since 2014. He is also an avid sailor. Political career Mayan was one of the founders of Liberal Initiative. In the 2021 Presidential election Mayan received 134,484 votes (3.22 %). In that year's local elections, he was elected President of the Parish of Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde, in Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic University Of Portugal
The Catholic University of Portugal (Portuguese: ''Universidade Católica Portuguesa'', pronounced nivɨɾsiˈðad(ɨ) kɐˈtɔlikɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ, also referred to as Católica or UCP for short, is a concordat university (non-state-run university with concordat status) headquartered in Lisbon and with four locations: Lisbon, Braga, Porto and Viseu. Besides the four centres in Portugal, UCP also has the University of Saint Joseph in Macau as its affiliate. It is recognized as the best Portuguese university according to the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Ranking, with more than 11 000 students and 7 549 postgraduate students. The current and 6th Rector of UCP is Professor Isabel Capeloa Gil. Católica in Figures Students: 11 296 students (Degree-Granting Programmes); 7 549 postgraduate students (non degree-granting programmes). Faculty: 1 000 faculty members; 254 international faculty members. Degrees awarded: 38 873 undergraduate; 14 099 masters; 801 doctoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rui Moreira (politician)
Rui de Carvalho de Araújo Moreira (born 8 August 1956) is a Portuguese businessman and politician, currently serving as Mayor of Porto since 2013. While officially an independent, he has been supported by the CDS – People's Party since 2013 and the Liberal Initiative (Portugal), Liberal Initiative since 2021. Biography Moreira was born in Porto. One of his great-grandfathers was Adolfo Höfle, a wealthy German migrant and employer of João Augusto Ferreira de Almeida, the last man executed by Portugal in 1917. Moreira graduated in Business from London's University of Greenwich, top of his 1978 class. A competitive sailor, he won youth and senior titles and represented Portugal in the sport. From 2004, Moreira represented FC Porto on ''Trio d'Ataque'', an Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, RTP programme with pundits from the Big Three (Portugal), Big Three of Portuguese football. He was dismissed from the show in October 2010, after walking off stage during a discussion about t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candidates For President Of Portugal
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People From Porto
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21st-century Portuguese Lawyers
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Portuguese Politicians
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Living People
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1977 Births
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Aldoar, Foz Do Douro E Nevogilde
Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Aldoar, Foz do Douro Foz do Douro (; meaning "Mouth of the Douro") is a former civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde. The population in 2011 was 10,997, in an area of 1.88&n ... and Nevogilde. The population in 2011 was 28,858,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 6.27 km². References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Initiative (Portugal)
The Liberal Initiative ( pt, Iniciativa Liberal, , IL) is a liberalism, liberal list of political parties in Portugal, political party in Portugal currently led by João Cotrim de Figueiredo. In 2019, its debut year at the Portuguese legislative elections, the party 2019 Portuguese legislative election, won one seat in the Portuguese Parliament. The party ran in its 2019 European Parliament election in Portugal, first elections in 2019, for the European Parliament, supporting its first government coalition, at regional level, after the 2020 Azorean regional election. It currently has 8 elected members of the parliament out of a total of 230 seats in the Portuguese Parliament. It defends opposition to statism through liberalism, calling for a low tax burden and laissez-faire, defending respect for individual freedom, opposing socialism. Founders The Liberal Initiative arises from a dinner on December 23, 2015 between the founders Alexandre Krauss, Bruno Horta Soares and Rodrig ... [...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 Portuguese municipalities: the election for the Municipal Chamber (the executive branch of the municipality), whose winner is elected mayor; another election for the Municipal Assembly (the deliberative branch of the municipality); and an election for the Parish Assembly (the deliberative branch of the lower-level parish), whose winner is elected parish president. This last one was held separately in the more than 3,000 parishes around the country. The elections happened during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. Because of that, there was a proposal by the Social Democratic Party to postpone the elections for two months and hold the election between 22 November and 14 December 2021. This proposal was rejected by Parliament and the election was to be held in the normal period set by the election law, between 22 September and 14 October. On 1 July 2021, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Portuguese Presidential Election
The 2021 presidential election was held in Portugal on 24 January. The incumbent President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, was reelected for a second term. The election was held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Portugal was under a lockdown as of election day. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was reelected by a landslide, winning 60.7% of the votes. He won every district in the country and all 308 municipalities, a result which happened for the first time ever in Portuguese democracy; he won 3,083 parishes out of 3,092. The election also marked the rise of right-wing candidate André Ventura, leader of CHEGA, who polled 3rd with almost 12% of the votes. In second place, former MEP and Ambassador Ana Gomes was able to win 13% of the votes, the best result ever for a female candidate in a presidential election. The rest of candidates did not receive above 5% each. Overall turnout in this election fell to 39.3%, a drop of 9 percentage points, mainly due to the automatic registration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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