Fernando Mimoso Negrão (born 29 November 1955) is a Portuguese jurist and politician. Born in

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, he graduated in Law from the

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in 1980 and spent his career around the country as a

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official, magistrate and judge. From 1995 to 1999 he headed the

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. A member of the

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(PSD), he was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in the 2002 election as head of their list for Faro. From 2004 to 2005, in the government of

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, he was the Minister for Social Security, Family and Children. In the

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, led by

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from 30 October to 26 November 2015, Negrão was Minister of Justice. In October 2015, Negrão ran for President of the Assembly, losing 120–108 to the

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candidate

Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues (born 3 November 1949) is a Portuguese politician and economist who had been President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2015 until 29 March 2022, in the 13th (2015–2019) and 14th Legislatures (201 ...

. On 22 February 2018, Negrão was elected the PSD's parliamentary leader with 39% of the votes (35 of 88).

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