Luís Filipe Montenegro Cardoso de Morais Esteves (born 16 February 1973) is a Portuguese politician who is the President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was a member of the Assembly of the Republic from the Aveiro District from 2002 to 2018, leading his party's parliamentary group from 2011. He was defeated by

Rui Rio Rui Fernando da Silva Rio (born 6 August 1957) is a Portuguese economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was the Mayor of Porto from 2002 to 2013. Between 2018 and 2022, he was President of the PSD and Leader of the Opp ...

in his party's 2020 leadership election, and won against

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in 2022.

Biography

Education and local politics

Montenegro was born in

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and raised in Espinho in the Aveiro District. He graduated in Law from the

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(the same profession as his father and grandfather), and was president of the Social Democratic Youth in Espinho from 1994 to 1996. He served on the city's council from

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to 2001, and ran for mayor in 2005, losing to José Mota of the

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(PS) by a 45% to 38% margin.

Assembly of the Republic

In 2002, 29-year-old Montenegro was elected to the Assembly of the Republic for the Aveiro District. He became the PSD parliamentary group's deputy leader to Miguel Macedo in 2010, and he received 86% of the votes to lead the group in June 2011, after PSD member

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had been elected

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. The early years of Montenegro's leadership coincided with the

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intervention to deal with the

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; he was criticised in January 2014 for saying "the life of the people is no better, but the life of the country is a lot better". He left parliament in February 2018 after the defeat of Passos Coelho, warning that the PSD should not turn into new leader "

's group of friends".

Leader of the PSD

In January 2020, Montenegro was a candidate in the PSD leadership election, challenging Rio. During the campaign, Rio attacked Montenegro for being a Freemason. In the run-off, Rio won with 53.2% of the votes. Rio resigned following the PSD's poor performance in the

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. Montenegro was the first person to put himself forward for the party leadership election, in which he ran against former minister

. Montenegro won with 72.47% of the votes, beating his opponent in every district.

Personal life

Montenegro was nicknamed ''Ervilha'' ("Pea") as a child for being small, round-figured and green-eyed, while his immediate family knew him by his middle name, Filipe. He took part in football and beach volleyball, and worked as a lifeguard as a youth, later taking up golf. As of May 2022, he is married and has two children. A variety of sources dating from 2012, including SAPO's Polígrafo fact-checking website, '' Público'', ''

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'', '' Jornal de Negócios'' and ''

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'' maintain that in 2008, Montenegro was admitted into the Mozart Lodge, a

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comprising politicians, businessmen and spies. In 2019, Montenegro denied being a Freemason.

Electoral history

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Official results
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Official results

References

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