João Barroso Soares (born 29 August 1949 in São Cristóvão e São Lourenço, Lisbon) is a

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editor and

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politician, who was President of the Municipality of Lisbon from 1995 to 2002. He is the son of the former Portuguese Prime Minister and President,

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, and the actress

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. He was married to Maria Olímpia Soares (b. 1951), daughter of António Domingos de Oliveira Soares and wife Clotilde Soares, by whom he had three children: Maria Inês (b. 1976), Maria Mafalda (b. 1981) and Mário Alberto (b. 1987). Later divorced, he married the Belgian Annick Burhenne, by whom he had a son Jonas (b. 2003), named after Jonas Savimbi, of whom João Soares is an admirer, and a daughter Lilah (b. 2007). He was member of the

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and of the Portuguese

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. In 2004, he lost to Manuel Alegre and

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a bid for the party leadership, and in October 2005 lost to Fernando Seara the election for President of the Municipality of

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. He also lost the election for president of the Municipality of Lisbon to

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, in 2001, being the first mayor of Lisboa to lose a reelection. In July 2008 he was elected President of the

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. He was reelected for another one-year term in July 2009. During the 2008 and 2012 United States elections, he acted as the special coordinator for the

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International Observation Misson. In April 2016, in a

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post, João Soares, Minister of Culture, said that he looked forward to landing "salutary blows" on two newspaper columnists. The post attracted hundreds of critical comments from the public, opposition politicians and journalists. Mr Soares, resigned after Prime Minister António Costa reprimanded him and issued a public apology. He initially defended his comments as a response to an "insulting personal attack", but later apologised.

Honours

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Grand-Cross of the

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(30 September 2001)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soares, Joao 1949 births Living people Mayors of Lisbon Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians Socialist Party (Portugal) MEPs MEPs for Portugal 1994–1999 Culture ministers of Portugal