Rui de Carvalho de Araújo Moreira (born 8 August 1956) is a Portuguese businessman and politician, currently serving as Mayor of

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 metropol ...

since 2013. While officially an independent, he has been supported by the

CDS – People's Party The CDS – People's Party ( pt, CDS – Partido Popular, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP)

since 2013 and the

Liberal Initiative The Liberal Initiative ( pt, Iniciativa Liberal, , IL) is a liberal political party in Portugal currently led by João Cotrim de Figueiredo. In 2019, its debut year at the Portuguese legislative elections, the party won one seat in the Portugu ...

since 2021.

Biography

Moreira was born in Porto. One of his great-grandfathers was Adolfo Höfle, a wealthy German migrant and employer of João Augusto Ferreira de Almeida, the last man executed by Portugal in 1917. Moreira graduated in Business from London's

University of Greenwich The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom. Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic. The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with it ...

, top of his 1978 class. A competitive sailor, he won youth and senior titles and represented Portugal in the sport. From 2004, Moreira represented

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portu ...

on ''Trio d'Ataque'', an RTP programme with pundits from the Big Three of Portuguese football. He was dismissed from the show in October 2010, after walking off stage during a discussion about the '' Apito Dourado'' corruption scandal at his club. In September 2013, running as an independent allied to the

CDS – People's Party The CDS – People's Party ( pt, CDS – Partido Popular, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP)

, he was elected mayor of Porto. He was re-elected four years later, with an absolute majority. In 2021, his list now including the

won the elections but lost its majority, having six of 13 councillors.

Honours

Grand-Cross of the

Order of Civil Merit The Order of Civil Merit ( es, Orden del Mérito Civil) was established by King Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1926. The order recognizes "the civic virtue of officers in the service of the Nation, as well as extraordinary service by Spanish and fore ...

, Spain (28 November 2016)

References

External links

Official Porto profile
Mayors of Porto Living people 1956 births People from Porto Portuguese male sailors (sport) Alumni of the University of Greenwich Portuguese people of German descent {{Portugal-mayor-stub