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Élvio Sousa
Élvio Duarte Martins Sousa (born 19 April 1974) is a Portuguese archeologist and politician from Madeira, currently serving as the secretary-general of Together for the People and as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira since 2015. Biography Élvio Sousa has a PhD in Regional and Local History from the University of Lisbon, being a researcher from CHAM – Centro de História de Aquém e de Além-Mar of the NOVA University of Lisbon. In 2009, he founded the independent movement "For the People of Gaula" with his brother Filipe Sousa in order to be able to run for President of the Parish of Gaula, winning with 46.6% of the votes. The movement changed it's name to Together for the People, winning the Mayorship of Santa Cruz in 2013 for Filipe Sousa. In 2015, Together for the People became a political party, with Élvio Sousa as secretary-general and Filipe Sousa as president of the party. The party ran in that year's regional elections, with Élvio Sousa as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together For The People
Together for the People (, JPP) is a political party operating primarily in Madeira. Its founding principles are Unity, Transparency and Resistance, as evidenced by its symbol. It was legalised by the Portuguese Constitutional Court on 27 January 2015. History It started in the parish of Santa Cruz, Madeira as an independent movement where it won the 2013 local elections with an absolute majority with Filipe Sousa as head. After the victory, it was decided to turn the movement into a political party, in March 2014, having submitted over 10 thousand signatures (more than the 7,500 required by law) to the Constitutional Court in November 2014. It was formed in order to run in the 2015 Madeiran regional elections, because the Portuguese Constitution does not allow for the candidacy of independents to the country's legislative organs or the existence of regional parties, making the JPP available to run in any election in the country if it so chooses, although it currently only ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Portuguese Local Elections
Local elections were held in Portugal on 11 October 2009. The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is automatically elected president, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP), another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country. The elections took place just two weeks after the 2009 legislative election. The elections resulted almost in a tie between the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, in which the Social Democrats lost almost 20 municipalities and also lost a considerable number of councilors. The Socialists, despite losing in number of municipal chambers, were the party that most councilors elected, a situation that has not happened since 1993 when in these elections the PSD elected more counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1974 Births
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a parliamentary republic and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the hosts won the championship title, as well as '' The Rumble in the Jungle'', a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Cafôfo
Paulo Alexandre Nascimento Cafôfo (born 18 May 1971) is a Portuguese teacher and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities between 2022-2024, in charge of the affairs related to the Portuguese diaspora, in António Costa's 23rd Constitutional Government. He had previously been a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira for the Socialist Party, and was Mayor of Funchal, Madeira Island, from 2013 to 2019. He graduated from the University of Coimbra with a degree in History, later becoming a History teacher in Madeira. Having no party affiliation, he was elected Mayor of Funchal in the 2013 local elections, leading a large coalition formed by the Socialist Party, Left Bloc, New Democracy Party, Earth Party, Portuguese Labour Party and the Party for Animals and Nature, defeating for the first time the long-ruling Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party ( , PS) is a social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Portugal, political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants who were at the time with the Portuguese Socialist Action (). The PS is a member of the Socialist International, Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists, and has eight members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the Tenth European Parliament, 10th European Parliament. The party won the 1976 Portuguese legislative election, 1976 general election and formed the I Constitutional Government of Portugal, first constitutional government after the 1974 revolution, with Mário Soares as prime minister. However, the government was unstable and fell in 1978. The PS lost the 1979 Portuguese legislative election, 1979 election, but returned to power in 1983 Portuguese legislative election, 1983, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Madeiran Regional Election
A snap regional election was held in Madeira on 23 March 2025, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Regions of Portugal, Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the Presidents of the Regional Government of Madeira, President of the Autonomous Region. This election, the third in just one year and a half, was called following the collapse of Albuquerque's government due to the approval of a motion of no confidence in December 2024. The Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD) won the election by a landslide, with more than 43 percent of the votes, but failed to win an absolute majority of its own by a narrow margin, electing 23 seats to the regional parliament, one short of a majority. The Together for the People (JPP) was the other big winner of the election, by becoming the second most voted party, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Madeiran Regional Election
Snap regional elections were held in Madeira on 26 May 2024, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the President of the Autonomous Region. Before the dissolution of the regional parliament, incumbent president Miguel Albuquerque, since 2015, from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), led a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party, with the parliamentary support of People Animals Nature. The Social Democrats defended their dominance in the islands, which they have held since 1976. The Social Democratic Party (PSD), marred in an ongoing corruption investigation, emerged, once again, as the winner with 36 percent of the votes, albeit losing one seat thus gathering 19 seats, but polling comfortably ahead of the second most voted party, the PS. The Socialist Party (PS) suffered another big def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Madeiran Regional Election
Regional elections were held in Madeira on 24 September 2023, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Regions of Portugal, Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the Presidents of the Regional Government of Madeira, President of the Autonomous Region. The incumbent president, Miguel Albuquerque from the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD), led a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party, and defended the dominance of the Social Democratic Party in the islands since 1976. The PSD and CDS–PP contested the election in a joint coalition. The "We are Madeira" coalition, between the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP), won the election with 43 percent of the votes but, despite polling predict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Madeiran Regional Election
Regional elections were held on 22 September 2019 to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira in Portugal. All 47 members of the Assembly were up for election. The Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party continued their 43-year streak of being the largest party in the Madeiran legislature, but failed to hold on to their absolute majority, and would require a coalition for the first time to remain in power. The party won 39 percent of the votes, a decrease of 5 percentage points, and lost 3 members of the regional party. In the electoral map, the PSD lost the two biggest cities in Madeira, Funchal and Santa Cruz, Madeira, Santa Cruz to the PS, although by less than 2 percent of the vote. Overall, the PSD still won the majority of municipalities, obtaining victory in 7 of the 11 in Madeira. The Socialist Party (Portugal), Socialist Party surged in these elections, polling just two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Madeiran Regional Election
A regional election was held in Madeira on 29 March 2015, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election was the first in which the former President of the Region, Alberto João Jardim, was not on the ballot as he earlier stated that he would step down as President and leader of the PSD-Madeira in January 2015. On 29 December 2014, the PSD-Madeira elected Miguel Albuquerque as the new president of the party's regional section. After winning the presidency, Albuquerque stated that he would not assume the Presidency of the Government without an election, so Alberto João Jardim asked President AnÃbal Cavaco Silva to dissolve the Parliament and call an election, which was scheduled for 29 March. The campaign for the regional legislative election in Madeira ran from 15 to 27 March 2015. The results showed that the Social Democrats were reelected for the 11th time in a row and, again, with an absolute majority of 24 seats, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Political Parties In Portugal
This article lists political parties in Portugal. The Portuguese political scene has been dominated by the Socialist Party (Portugal), Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party since the 1974 Carnation Revolution although there are several important minor parties (discussed below). As of 2025, the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly of the Republic are the Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 2024), Democratic Alliance (91 Member of Parliament, MPs, in which PPD/PSD has 89 seats and CDS–PP has 2 seats), the Chega (political party), Chega party (60 MPs), Socialist Party (Portugal), Socialist Party (58 MPs), the Liberal Initiative (9 MPs), the LIVRE, FREE party (6 MPs), the Unitary Democratic Coalition (3 MPs), the Left Bloc (Portugal), Left Bloc (1 MP), the People-Animals-Nature party (1 MP), and the Together for the People party (1 MP). Several other parties are represented in the legislatures of the Autono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
