Carlos Manuel Guimarães Oliveira Pinto, better known as Carlos Guimarães Pinto (born in
Espinho, Portugal, in 1983), is a Portuguese economist, author, university professor,
think tank
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executive, blogger and politician. A prominent member of the
Liberal Initiative, on October 13, 2018, he became the president of the party, a position he left on December 8, 2019 being succeeded by
João Cotrim de Figueiredo. He is a founder of the think tank +Liberdade, a non-profit institute that promotes
democracy
Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which people, the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choo ...
,
market economy
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and
individual freedom
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in Portugal. In 2022, he was elected member of the
Assembly of the Republic by the
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 metropo ...
electoral district.
See also
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Liberalism in Portugal
Since the beginning of liberalism in Portugal in the 19th century, several parties have, by gaining representation in parliament, continued the liberal ideology in contemporary Portuguese politics. But after the initial fervor of the Liberal Rev ...
References
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1983 births
Living people
Catholic University of Portugal alumni
University of Porto alumni
21st-century Portuguese economists
Liberal Initiative people